$4.5B For Green Job Training

Posted on | May 27, 2009 | No Comments

President Obama has earmarked $4.5 billion to create “green jobs” and to train workers for these jobs.  The money has been allocated to two taskforces–the Middle Class Task Force charged with improving public housing and a Labor Department task force charged with training workers for “green jobs”.

The Middle Class Task Force will create green jobs by renovating public housing units to make them more energy efficient.  The Labor Department task force will train and re-train workers, giving them new skills like solar panel installation and manufacturing and green building.  The Labor Department task force has set aside $50 million for training workers in communities most impacted by job losses and auto industry restructuring.

According to a task force report released in February, the green jobs created by both task forces are related to helping the environment, pay up to 20 percent more than other jobs, are more likely to be union jobs and more likely to be held by men, less so by minorities and people who live in cities.

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