Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Green Jobs Not Growing As Expected

The Obama Administration channeled $90 billion of the $870 billion dollar stimulus package towards the new green economy. The hope was that a national move from fossil energy to green energy would not only be good, long term, for the environment, but that the transition could also be a jobs' driver, which would help resuscitate the overall economy. But two years into Obama's administration, the White House has reported it's helped create 224,500 green jobs, far short of the 5 million it had openly predicted. At the Ocala green job training school, the reality for students is that only about 25 percent of the green graduates have found green employment...more

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