The "green jobs" movement in the Hudson Valley is young, but real,
and will grow in coming years, speakers at a conference said Friday.
To
help that growth, a focus is needed on improving educational systems to
help emerging industries. Also, solutions are needed to unlock
financing that green businesses, which are mostly small, require to
grow.
About 150
people attended the Green 2010 conference held at the Cary Institute
for Ecosystems Studies. It was the fifth annual event, but this one
ca...
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Green Jobs
Current data on jobs and wages show why workers rightly feel they are
being left out of the economic recovery. Unemployment is at a quarter
century high and the Congressional Budget Office predicts that unless
stronger actions are taken, unemployment will remain above 10% in 2010,
9% in 2011, and 7% in 2012. This means that between 15 to 20% of the
nation's human capital will remain unemployed, underemployed, or out of
the labor force for the next three years -- clearly an unacceptable
outc... 
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