US DOL announces $100 million in green jobs training...[most to blue states]

Energy Training Partnership Grants

Grant Recipient	Location of Grant	Areas Served	Award AMOUNT	Populations Served
1. Northwest Energy Efficiency Council	Washington state	Counties: Clallam, King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish Cities: Bremerton, Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma	$3,876,171	Older youth, dislocated workers, incumbent workers, veterans, women and individuals with disabilities
2. United Auto Workers (UAW)-Labor Employment and Training Corporation (UAW-LETC)	Missouri	Counties: St. Charles and St. Louis	$3,200,000	Veterans, ex-offenders, individuals with disabilities and women
3. H-CAP Inc.	California, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York and Washington state	California Counties: Los Angeles, Riverside; District of Columbia; Maryland Counties: Baltimore and Prince Georges; New York Counties: Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond; and Washington State County: King	$4,637,551	Immigrants and minorities
4. Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA), AFL-CIO	California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey	California Counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside; Massachusetts Counties: Suffolk, Norfolk and Plymouth; and New Jersey Counties: Warren, Union, Sussex, Morris, Middlesex and Bergen	$4,993,922	Women, minorities, older youth and incumbent workers
5. International Transportation Learning Center	New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Utah	Statewide in New Jersey, New York and Utah; Columbus, Ohio	$5,000,000	Minorities

6. California State Labor Management Cooperation Committee for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the National Electrical Contractors Association (LMCC-IBEW-NECA)	California	Statewide	$5,000,000	Unemployed and underemployed electricians
7. Central Vermont Community Action Council Inc.	Vermont	State of Vermont — all 14 counties and 256 minor civil divisions	$4,846,195	Unemployed, underemployed, veterans, high school dropouts, women and individuals with disabilities
8. E.C.I.A Business Growth Inc.	Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin	Portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin and 27 county regions in Iowa	$2,060,250	Unemployed and dislocated workers, high school graduates, veterans, disconnected youth, women and minorities
9. Institute for Career Development (ICD) Inc.	Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania	Indiana Counties: Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Pulaski and Starke; New York County: Erie; Ohio County: Cuyahoga; and Pennsylvania County: Montgomery	$4,658,983	Dislocated steelworkers
10. National Ironworkers and Employers Apprenticeship Training and Journeyman Upgrading Fund	California, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Utah	20 counties in the 5 states impacted by auto restructuring: areas within 400 miles of La Palma, Calif.; Joliet, Ill.; West Seneca, N.Y.; Arlington, Texas; and Salt Lake City; Utah	$1,943,931	Dislocated workers

11. Blue Green Alliance	Minnesota	Twin Cities 7-County Metro Area; Iron Range region of Northeastern Minnesota (Crow Wing, Aitkin, Carton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis counties); and the 38 southern Minnesota counties	$5,000,000	Dislocated workers, women, minorities, veterans, incumbent workers and unemployed steelworkers
12. Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership	Oregon and Washington	Oregon Counties: Clackamas, Multnomah, Marion, Polk, Washington and Yamhill; and Washington Counties: Clark, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum	$5,000,000	Unemployed and dislocated workers and employed workers at local renewable energy industries
13. SER Metro-Detroit, Jobs for Progress Inc.	Michigan	Wayne County, and Detroit	$4,298,673	Women, minorities and veterans
14. The Providence Plan	Rhode Island	Rhode Island	$3,720,000	Ex-offenders, minorities and dislocated workers
15. Montana Electrical Joint Apprenticeship & Training Council (MEJATC)	Montana	Montana	$5,000,000	Unemployed workers
16. Communications Workers of America (CWA) National Education and Training Trust	Ohio	Allen, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Montgomery, Richland, Seneca, Shelby and Trumbull	$3,969,056	Dislocated workers and veterans
17. Heritage Health Foundation	Pennsylvania	Upper Monongahela Valley region of Southwestern Pennsylvania	$1,408,601	Underemployed and unemployed workers, veterans, women and minorities

18. Thomas Shortman Training Scholarship and Safety Fund	New York	New York City (all five boroughs)	$2,802,269	Incumbent workers and minorities
19. Memphis Bioworks Foundation	Tennessee and Arkansas	Tennessee Counties: Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, McNairy, Obion, Shelby, Tipton and Weakley; Arkansas Counties: Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Phillips and St. Francis	$2,931,103	Dislocated workers
20. International Training Institute for the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Industry	Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, California, New Mexico and Texas	Michigan Counties: Detroit, Livonia, Ann Arbor, Warren, Wayne; Ohio Counties: Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, Youngstown; Missouri County: St. Louis, Illinois: East St. Louis); California: Los Angeles, Anaheim, Long Beach, Riverside, San Bernardino; New Mexico Counties: Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces; Texas Counties: El Paso and Lubbock	$4,995,188	Unemployed and underemployed individuals, veterans, minorities and women
21. Labor's Community Action Inc.	Colorado	Statewide	$3,604,162	Dislocated workers, incumbent workers and newly trained workers
22. Austin Electrical Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (JATC)	Arizona; Oklahoma; Kansas; New Mexico; and Texas	Statewide for all	$4,842,424	Unemployed workers and incumbent workers

23. Community Housing Partners Corporation	Virginia	Counties: Alleghany, Bland, Botetourt, Bristol, Carroll, Craig, Floyd, Franklin, Giles, Grayson, Montgomery, Pulaski, Roanoke, Smyth and Washington; Cities: Covington, Galax, Radford, Roanoke and Salem	$3,865,480	Unemployed and dislocated workers
24. Broward County Minority Builders Coalition	Florida	Broward County	$3,280,656	Unemployed workers, veterans, women, ex-offenders and minorities
25. Ohio Electrical Labor Management Cooperative Committee	Ohio	Auto Industry-Impacted Counties: Adams, Allen, Auglaize, Carroll, Champaign, Clermont, Clinton, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Highland, Huron, Jackson, Knox, Logan, Lorain, Lucas, Madison, Montgomery, Morrow, Noble, Paulding, Pike, Preble, Putnam, Richland, Ross, Sandusky, Seneca, Shelby, Summit, Trumbull, Union, Van Wert, Wayne, Williams, Wood and Wyandot	$4,826,073	Incumbent and dislocated workers, including veterans

$100 mil! What is that? 50 jobs for 10 months?

Just “cash for clunkers” by another name.

“job training programs” means that the cronies will siphon off the money and in exchange will impart training with trivial information such as “if you attend college, you will improve your chances of landing a job.”

SMASH SOCIALISM

Just another Marxist big government tax and spend boondoggle. Epic fail.

Socialist ping

And all of it make work besides.

13% unemployment in this county in Ohio and not one dime for anything except transportation learning for minorites (whatever that is?) statewide. Seeing as this county is less than 5% minority I’d guess we got nothing.Real unemployment is close to 25% since some haven’t worked since the early 90’s before Clinton passed through the clean air act.

I didn't see one "green job" listed.

What constitutes a "green job," anyway?

And all of it make work besides.

Well, it makes training. Whether it actually makes work remains to be seen. How many customers will there be for these green products?

This is nothing more than a union / community activist pay out list.

In other words, rats at the trough.

The best that can be said is that it is only $100 million wasted.

Give a look see at Hocking Tech’s new Green building. They have academic programs in hybrids & alt+E & fuel cells. The building is new and was visited by 0bama in ‘08. Lots of hubbub. Connected to the Ohio New Frontier Program, which apparently has ties to windmills (and a certain billionaire).

http://hocking.edu/academics/academicPrograms/alternative-energy/default.aspx

i hear there are jobs in oil shale extraction in ND, but I don’t know about the training. I did hear OK had apprenticeships awhile back, but I haven’t kept up.

UT up Toledo way is tight with First Energy or whatever it is that does solar.

Me, were I starting out again, I’d go work for Stan Ovishinsky. He’s the man. Michigander, though.

Don’t even know about the training. My definition of make work is work of little value assigned only to keep someone from being idle. Or work that produces less final value than the cost of underwriting it.

Kind of like most of the ‘green stuff’ - such as subsidizing ethanol so the pious can feel good about using it in their Prius.

The best that can be said is that it is only $100 million wasted.

The press release says that there's an additional $400 million allocated.

Here’s Stan’s thing now:

http://www.uni-solar.com/interior.asp?id=94

He invented the electric car. Now he’s going for thin-film plug & play photovoltaics, including roofing. Now, you think about that. I’d’ve been happy to sort the guys mail, all those years ago.

If memory serves, someone’s doing a thing on de-germing/de-fungus-izing surfaces. I think they’re in Akron. Don’t know how to get in, but they’re uber uber out there good. I saw a documentary about people in a house that had no mold as a result of whatever this is.

Thus endeth the trivia. Beats thinking about CWII.

This is nothing more than a union / community activist pay out list.

Yup. And ex-cons are targeted for training in some states. Did you see that?

Sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you considered the grants worthwhile.

Yup.