Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The Green Jobs Numbers

Now, more than ever, prospects for “green jobs” are being treated as a red flag in partisan debate.

Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog group, has documented a Fox News report proclaiming that the costs of green jobs exceed the benefits. A recent New York Times article, pointing to lackluster programs in California, concluded that “public efforts to stimulate creation of green jobs have largely failed.” A column by David Brooks in The New York Times was pointedly titled “Where the Jobs Aren’t.”

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