Green Economic Recovery Program - Impact on Montana - Part of a National Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy
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The fact sheet below details the impact on Montana based on a national report that outlines a green economic recovery program to strengthen the U.S. economy over the next two years and leave it in a better position for sustainable prosperity. In the national report we propose policies to expand job opportunities by stimulating economic growth, stabilizing the price of oil, and making significant strides toward fighting global warming and building a green, low-carbon economy.
By Robert Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, James Heintz, and Helen Scharber
Full Report: http://images2.americanprogress.org/ ... peri_mt.pdf
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Green Recovery - A New Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy
The signs are clear: Our economy is in trouble. Falling home prices, foreclosures, bank failures, a weaker dollar, rising prices for gas, food, and steel, and layoffs in banking, construction, and manufacturing sectors are all indicators of serious economic strain—following a long period in which the middle class went nowhere even while the economy grew as a whole. What’s more, evidence suggests the current downturn will continue for at least another year.
By John Podesta
Full Report: http://www.americanprogress.org/issu ... covery.html 
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As a one more piece of information to help us actually make that impact, here is the information on the Green jobs Act passed into law last year as Title X of the 2007 Energy Bill that I spoke about at the MEDA conference (Here is the act http://www.matr.net/files/green-jobs-act.pdf and the FAQ’s http://www.matr.net/files/faq-greenjobsact07.pdf ) and told membership I would get them the info (I had some folks ask me for it after as well). The bill has yet to be appropriated but if it gets fully funded it will, as a pilot program, initially provide 125 million a year in the form of block grants and training funds to partnerships (government and nonprofit entities and others) and help fund the new green economy. Washington state is already poised to get this funding because they created their own state program which prepares them for the dollars when they do get appropriated. We need to let our congressional delegation know that it is important for Montanans that this act gets FULLY funded and we need to set up the infrastructure necessary to actually be competitive (like Washington State). Let me know if you have any questions Beth Berlin http://climatesolutions.org/ 206-443-9570 |
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