$100B Investment Could Yield 2M ‘Green’ Jobs in U.S. - Report
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Loading ...A $100 billion investment over two years by the U.S. government could create 2 million “green” jobs, according to a report released by environmental and labor groups yesterday.
“Green Recovery–A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy” analyzes the potential for a two-year $100 billion green investment program.
The report, commissioned by the Center for American Progress think tank and prepared by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, finds that investing in clean energy would create four times as many jobs as spending the same amount of money within the oil industry, and 20% more jobs than increasing spending on household consumption–the main target of the April 2008 stimulus package. Read more
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