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Responding To Climate Change By Speeding Job Creation

By Natasha Chart
November 17, 2009

From Bloomberg, we learn how China is pushing an ambitious domestic clean economy agenda, planning large scale projects that will keep their citizens employed and civil unrest at bay. more »

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Making It In America: Building The New Economy

Where We’re Going. How We’ll Get There.

By Eric Lotke and Armand Biroonak
Institute for America's Future
October 29th, 2009
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We can’t go back to the economy of the past—a high-consumption, low-wage economy based on asset bubbles and foreign borrowing. Our response to the current crisis must plant the seeds for the economy of the future. America needs an industrial policy to shape that future. From workforce development to component manufacture, we need a strategic collaboration between the private sector and the government to reach our shared national goals. This report makes the case for that policy and explains what should be the key elements. more »

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The Missing Link In Clean-Energy Policy

By Andrea Buffa
October 15, 2009

There was a certain irony in the U.S. decision to hold the recent G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh to show off the former steel town’s success at creating green jobs. Pittsburgh transformed itself from a polluted and declining industrial metropolis into a clean and booming green one by crafting deliberate economic development policies to support the growth of clean-energy industries. more »

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IBEW Members Rally Against “Jobless Recovery”

By Alex Hogan
October 9, 2009

Despite hopeful numbers on Wall Street, the job situation for most Americans remains bleak – and it’s getting worse.

September brought the 21st straight month of job loss, the worst stretch since 1939. More than 7 million jobs have been lost since the beginning of the recession with little hope that they will ever come back. more »

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Saving Green Manufacturing Through Fair Trade

By Alex Hogan
September 2, 2009

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers President Edwin D. Hill comments on the recent announcement by General Electrical Co. more »

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Shifting from Defense to Green Jobs is Easy

By Armand Biroonak
August 20, 2009

As progressives call for cuts to defense spending, a big challenge in doing so is addressing job losses that come with eliminating weapons programs. The number of jobs at stake can often be a powerful argument for defense supporters that cannot be ignored. The recent fight over the F-22 and its production in over 40 states is a clear example. But there is a remedy. more »

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Can't Ship Out Those Green Jobs

By Tula Connell
April 24, 2009

We're giving up Styrofoam cups here at our building in Washington, D.C. Also doing an energy audit and taking a few other steps as a start toward making our building a green one--just some of the actions the AFL-CIO announced this week, in time for Earth Day.

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Where Wall Street Drains into the Bay

By William Neil
February 6, 2009

February 4, 2009

WHERE “WALL STREET” DRAINS INTO THE BAY

Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: more »

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