Democratic presidential candidates
Posted 11-05-2012 at 08:10 AM by marcitize12
Democratic presidential candidates have been stumping for "green collar jobs," contending that workers need federally-funded training to help build the new energy economy and fill the avalanche of work coming to the burgeoning domestic clean-tech and alternative energy sectors. Attention to green jobs is a relatively new thing in congress and on the campaign trail only recently. A search of the nation's major newspapers on the site newslibrary.com shows 2007 as the year the phrase "green collar jobs" came into popular use. Last year, the number of stories mentioning these jobs jumped to 317. In just the first month of 2008, the number of stories hit 114. The concept has crept into the political lexicon over the past four years while lawmakers have pushed a trifecta of energy-related causes: a boost in domestic renewable energy production, U.S. "energy independence," and reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.
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