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Revive Manufacturing with Green Jobs

By Dave Johnson
October 4, 2011

There is a green manufacturing revolution occurring in the world -- the rest of it, anyway -- and it is on track to create millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of new wealth. more »

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What’s Green, White and Blue? American Jobs

By Leo Gerard
August 10, 2010

Red, as in furiously red, defined the day last fall when a consortium of companies announced it wanted $450 million in U.S. more »

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Q&A with Veteran Labor Organizer Stewart J. Acuff

By Leo Gerard
July 6, 2010

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Green Jobs Are NOT A Myth!

By Dave Johnson
March 1, 2010

Last week the Washington Post ran an op-ed with the curious headline, “The Green Jobs Myth.” more »

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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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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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Interests: An Economy for All, AFL-CIO, good jobs, green jobs, IBEW, labor movement
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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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