{"id":13301,"date":"2012-04-17T21:09:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T01:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13301"},"modified":"2012-04-17T21:09:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T01:09:54","slug":"hows-that-green-jobs-thing-working-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13301","title":{"rendered":"How’s That Green Jobs Thing Working For You ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart.com<\/a>\u00a0reported yesterday that President Obama’s ‘green jobs<\/a>‘ initiative has not worked very well. The source of their story was a Reuters<\/a>\u00a0story that had been posted on Friday.<\/p>\n

Since 2009, although the energy capacity of wind farms has almost doubled, the industry has lost 10,000 jobs. During that same time period, the oil and gas industry<\/a> have created 75,000 jobs.<\/p>\n

Reuters reports:<\/p>\n

The program’s (the $500 million\u00a0job-training program that aims to train workers for skills they would need in a new “green economy<\/a>“)\u00a0initial results were so poor that the Labor Department<\/a>‘s inspector general recommended last fall that the agency should return the $327 million that remained unspent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The numbers have improved somewhat since then, but the department remains far short of its goal of placing 80,000 workers into green jobs by 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By the end of 2011, some 16,092 participants had found new work in a “green” field, according to the Labor Department – roughly one-fifth of its target. The program also helped employed workers upgrade their skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At some point are we going to stop wasting taxpayer money on things that don’t work? This is a\u00a0glaring example of a place where the federal budget could be seriously cut without endangering anyone’s existence.<\/p>\n

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