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A comprehensive report prepared by Good Jobs First, with significant contributions from the Apollo Alliance, presents considerable evidence that although a number of clean energy sector companies are cooperating with unions and providing wages, many more are not even though they receive public subsidies that require employers to pay the prevailing wage. |
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Getting hired into a green-collar job can build a successful career. Here is how to find a green-collar job and what kind of occupations will exist and now exist in the clean energy sector. |
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Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities
A coalition of non-profit environmental and economic research organizations from across the country today released a first-of-its kind guide to cities and states to enhance one critical component of America’s shared prosperity. The new guide, “Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities,” was made public at the start of the two-day national Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Pittsburgh. It makes a strong case that pursuing a four-step strategy – essentially a metropolitan green business and jobs development plan – provides a wealth of environmental, economic, and social benefits. |
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America as a whole is suffering through a deep economic recession, with job losses and extreme levels of wealth inequality, rising energy prices and energy insecurity, and an increasing scarcity of hope and common purpose. Americans are looking for solutions on climate, energy and the economy. To address these intersecting challenges, we propose a national Clean Energy Corps (CEC). The CEC will be a combined service, training, and job creation effort to combat global warming, grow local and regional economies and demonstrate the equity and employment promise of the clean energy economy. |
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Greener Pathways: Jobs And Workforce Development In The Clean Energy Economy
Broadly defined, “green jobs” is not a salient category for policy innovation or workforce training. To make real progress on economic and workforce development in the new energy economy, we must focus more carefully on key clean energy sectors. Greener Pathways does just that, by detailing current economic and workforce development opportunities in three leading industries: energy efficiency, wind, and biofuels. The report also examines federal resources that can support state green jobs initiatives, including programs in the Departments of Energy and Labor, and the Green Jobs Act included in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. We conclude by outlining a plan of action for state policymakers, highlighting policy, program, and system reform opportunities to embrace the greener and more equitable promise of the new energy economy. |
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Greener Pathways: Executive Summary
Congress and on the campaign trail—people are talking about the economic promise of clean energy. Greener Pathways puts jobs at the heart of this animated national conversation. |
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Community Jobs in the Green Economy
Every city and community in the United States has some potential to capitalize on the clean energy economy through good wind or solar resources or through retrofit programs to bring old, dilapidated buildings up to energy efficiency codes. The Apollo Alliance and Urban Habitat are committed to fighting for a clean energy future that benefits not only businesses and the environment, but also workers and low-income communities. |
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This signature Apollo jobs report describes how a massive investment in Apollo’s ten-point plan would lead to over 3 million new green-collar jobs, stimulate $1.4 trillion in new GDP, add billions in personal income and retail sales, and produce $284 billion in net energy savings – all while generating sufficient returns to the U.S. treasury to pay for itself over ten years. |
Environmental Defense Fund, September 2008 
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