Green Jobs in the Recovery Process

The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments Across America (PEW Charitable Trusts)
At the federal level, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides tens of billions of dollars to bolster those efforts. But to realize the clean energy economy's full potential, federal leaders must do more. The nation needs a comprehensive, economy-wide energy plan, a market-based system that will significantly reduce emissions that cause global warming and derive more of America's energy supply from clean, renewable sources.

A Green Jobs Primer: Job Creation in a Clean Energy Economy (Center for American Progress)
What is a green job? Are green jobs only low-paying jobs? This report seeks to answer four broad questions regarding green jobs in today's economy.

Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy (Center for American Progress)
This report outlines a green economic recovery program to strengthen the U.S. economy over the next two years and leave it in a better position for sustainable prosperity.

Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User's Guide to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Green For All and PolicyLink have prepared this User's Guide to assist local and state advocates, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and policymakers in making the best use of recovery dollars.

Green Jobs and LMI

Greening of the World of Work: Implications for O*NET-SOC and New and Emerging Occupations
Discusses the impact of green and emerging jobs on the O*NET-SOC system.

Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State by State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments (Center for American Progress)
This new report, sponsored in part by the Center for American Progress in advance of a major clean energy jobs study to be released by CAP and PERI later this summer, provides a snapshot of what kinds of jobs are needed to build a green economy in the United States.

Preparing the Workforce for a "Green Jobs" Economy
Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have produced an issue brief to assist educators and others interested in training "green" workers in the skills employers increasingly demand.

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