White House Economic Team Touts Green Jobs as Key to Global Competitiveness

Experts advising the White House on economic recovery have reached a “remarkable consensus” on the need for green jobs to make the United States competitive around the world. It was announced Wednesday at a meeting of the President’s Economic Advisory Board. That assessment, consistent with the Obama administration’s environmental policies, conflicts with an academic study examining the consequences of the government promoting “green jobs” in Spain. A number of the policies instituted there have been referenced by the Obama administration as worth implementing in the United States. However, for every four green jobs created in Spain, nine regular jobs were lost, according to the study by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. “We talked about energy and clean energy and the opportunity and necessity for reform – there was remarkable consensus from this group,” said Paul Volcker, chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, after the first quarterly meeting with President Barack Obama on Wednesday at the White House...CNSNews
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