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Green jobs training program spent $80,000 per job

By Philip Klein
Published September 22, 2011 4:00am ET
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Green jobs training program spent $80,000 per job
A “green jobs” training program created by President Obama’s economic stimulus package cost $500 million, but has only produced about 6,500 jobs, according to calculations based on testimony this morning by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. In her prepared testimony for a House Oversight Committee hearing on green jobs, Solis said: As of June 2011, […]

A “green jobs” training program created by President Obama’s economic stimulus package cost $500 million, but has only produced about 6,500 jobs, according to calculations based on testimony this morning by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.

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