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Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises - NYT
In the Bay Area as in much of the country, the green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned. President Obama once pledged to create five million green jobs over 10 years. Gov. Jerry Brown promised 500,000 clean-technology jobs statewide by the end of the decade. But the results so far suggest such numbers are a pipe dream.
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Warning: jobs of The Onion writers at risk - Michael Barone/Washington Examiner
Yes, the house organ of Team Obama (according to the president himself the other day) reveals that the approximately $100,000,000 in stimulus money spent on weatherizing houses in California succeeded in producing just 538 jobs and that $59,000,000 in federal, state and private money devoted to producing “green jobs” in California has led to 719 job placements in a state of 37,000,000.
How do you say pathetic in Californian? That’s about $185,000 per weatherization job and $82,000 per “green job.” I suppose charlatans like the former White House “green jobs” aide Van Jones would argue for switching the weatherization funds to “green jobs.” But of course the more sensible conclusion is to stop wasting this money altogether.
