While the economic picture in the United States has brightened recently with more upbeat employment figures, Europe remains mired in a slump. (NYT, 1/2/2012)
Preparing for Obama's reelection campaign, the New York Times announces that the U.S. economy is squarely on the rebound. Job growth came in the "shovel-ready green energy" sector.
The Case
The country obviously needs more jobs. Mr. Obama needs to lay out the case that industry, with government help, can create hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs without incurring environmental risks — by upgrading old power plants to comply with environmental laws, retrofitting commercial and residential buildings that soak up nearly 40 percent of the country’s energy (and produce nearly 40 percent of its carbon emissions) and promoting growth in new industries like wind and solar power and advanced vehicles. (NYT, 1/2/2012)
Speaking of those green energy jobs! What the country needs - according to the Times - is more Solyndras.
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