Today, Assembly Speaker John Perez and State Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg shared a new plan that would bring tons of new energy jobs to California, according to the Sacramental Business Journal. These types of jobs aren’t just coming to California, however. Across the country, clean energy and renewable energy jobs are becoming more and [...]
Green Collar Jobs
Green jobs are hot and getting hotter. The Obama administration recently committed $20 million to develop offshore wind energy and is now giving another $1.85 billion to build solar plants around the U.S. Of that large sum, $1.45 billion will be given to the Arizona plant, Abengoa Solara, which will put the money toward powering [...]
Workers in green collar jobs are in high demand, and as as renewable energy and environmental issues continue to affect nearly every industry, this job market will only continue to grow. Starting on July 7, you can be among the first students at the newly designed Ecotech Institute. Based in Aurora, Colorado, this is the [...]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that the month of March saw the biggest boost in new job creation in over three years. 162,000 new positions were created, with just under one-quarter of them coming from temporary government jobs, such as working for the Census Bureau. So where are the rest of these [...]
In President Obama’s first State of the Union address last night, he waxed on for 70-some minutes about the economy, the housing crisis, the health care reform (meltdown) and Iraq and Afghanistan. But amidst those important issues, his top priority for the coming year was clear: Job creation. Jobs must be our number one focus [...]
Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to find a better paying job? If you are going for the “green,” consider a green job! Disappointed by America’s continued flagging unemployment, President Obama is pushing for new legislation that will expand government funding for clean technology jobs. The proposal, as reported here by MSNBC, would give [...]
Time Magazine’s feature story this week is a sobering report on double digit unemployment. The magazine asks, frighteningly, if double-digit unemployment is here to stay. Economists had long since told us that when growth returned, jobs would return. But now, top labor analysts are wondering whether this truism still rings true. Has something fundamental changed [...]
Business Week ran a fascinating article a few weeks ago about how to find a job during America’s economic recovery. As I’ve long been harping on here at the JobMonkey, the earliest growth will be in one of four fields: health care, education, government employment, and green business. In fact, these four fields have been [...]
