Obama: Economic Stimulus Plan Will Create 500,000 New Green Jobs
Last week, President-Elect Barack Obama’s said that his economic stimulus plan will create half a million new green jobs for America.
“We’ll create nearly half a million jobs by investing in clean energy – by committing to double the production of alternative energy in the next three years, and by modernizing more than 75% of federal buildings and improving the energy efficiency of two million American homes,” the president elect said. These made-in-America jobs building solar panels and wind turbines, developing fuel-efficient cars and new energy technologies pay well, and they can’t be outsourced.”
The statement came as Obama discussed his plans to create 3 to 4 million new jobs nationwide. He told the nation that it immediate and dramatic action is necessary to reverse the current economic downturn.
Click here to watch the speech in its entirety
As a candidate for president Barack Obama made it that clean energy and green jobs would figure heavily into his plans to invigorate the economy. As the president-elect Obama has remained true to that commitment. But he can't do it alone.
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David Anderson is the author of the blog The Green Jobs Report
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