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  • Seattle’s "Green jobs" Program A Bust ($20 million insulation effort = 3 houses, 14 jobs)

    09/04/2011 7:40:39 PM PDT · by Robert A Cook PE · 25 replies
    Seattle PI ^ | Aug 17, 2011 | Vanessa Ho
    Seattle’s ‘green jobs’ program a bust Seattle PI Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. The unglamorous work of insulating crawl spaces and attics had emerged as a silver bullet in a bleak economy - able to create jobs and shrink carbon footprint - and the announcement came with great fanfare. 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...