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    STAFF REPORT Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class
    STAFF REPORT Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class
    STAFF REPORT Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class
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    STAFF REPORT Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class

    By Joe Biden

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    Green jobs are an important issue concerning the current political and ecological situation worldwide. Creating new jobs in the field of environmental improvement is an aim for the administration of President Biden and his party. This work presents a governmental agenda on attracting middle-class representatives to the green jobs sector.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 8, 2020
    ISBN4064066419691
    STAFF REPORT Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class

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      STAFF REPORT Green Jobs - Joe Biden

      Joe Biden

      STAFF REPORT Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066419691

      Table of Contents

      Introduction and Executive Summary

      Findings

      What Is A Green Job?

      Characteristics of Green Jobs Today and the Workers Who Staff Them

      Green Jobs and Green Job Training in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

      Green Jobs in Action: Examples of Local Initiatives to Promote Green Jobs

      Case Study #1 : Los Angeles: Extensive Labor Market Intermediaries Train Workers to Fill Newly Created Green Jobs

      Case Study #2 : Washington State: Building A Climate Change Framework with an Emphasis on Green Job Creation

      Financing Green Jobs

      Green Jobs and Economic Mobility

      Conclusion

      Policies to Help Promote the Creation of Green Jobs: The Pieces of the Puzzle Come Together in Philadelphia

      Appendix: Further CEA analysis of jobs in green occupations in likely green industries.

      Introduction and Executive Summary

      Table of Contents

      The White House Task Force on the Middle Class has a simple mandate: to find, highlight, and implement solutions to the economic challenges facing the American middle class. With that mandate at our backs, it is no accident that we chose to focus on green jobs for our very first taskforce meeting in Philadelphia, PA on February 27.

      There are many reasons for our interest in green jobs. The Obama/Biden Administration is deeply committed to reforming how we create and consume energy in America, and project of reform is the work of many different officials and agencies within the government. One part of that agenda is to promote the creation of green jobs.

      Green jobs have the potential to be quality, family-sustaining jobs that also help to improve our environment. They are largely domestic jobs that can’t be offshored. They tend to pay more than other jobs, even controlling for worker characteristics. Moreover, green jobs are an outgrowth of a larger movement to reform the way we create and use energy in both this country and the rest of the world. They represent a growth sector, and one that offers the dual promise of providing good jobs while meeting the environmental challenge to reduce our dependence on finite fossil fuels that generate harmful carbon emissions.

      We devote more space to definitions below, but we define green jobs quite broadly as employment that is associated with some aspect of environmental improvement. A scientist working on advanced renewable energy alternatives to CO2-producing fossil fuels is engaged in a green job, but so is a laborer weatherizing a home or a lineman--or linewoman--building out the smart electric grid.

      This overview paper presents and discusses a few of the most important developments in green jobs over the past few years. Specifically, we examine the following questions and areas of interest regarding green jobs:

      • What is a green job, and what are the characteristics of those jobs? • Green jobs in the recovery package • Green jobs in action: a review of ongoing activities in this area • Policies to help promote the creation of green jobs • Leveraging private capital investment in green jobs • Making sure green jobs are good jobs, accessible to all.

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