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  • Seattle's 'green jobs' program a bust

    08/16/2011 5:41:32 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 21 replies
    Seattle Post Intelligencer ^ | August 16, 2011 | By VANESSA HO
    Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. McGinn had joined Vice President Joe Biden in the White House to make it. It came on the eve of Earth Day. It had heady goals: creating 2,000 living-wage jobs in Seattle and retrofitting 2,000 homes in poorer neighborhoods. But more than a year later, Seattle's numbers are lackluster. As of last week, only three homes had been retrofitted and just 14 new jobs have emerged from the program. Many of the jobs are administrative, and not the entry-level...