Environmental Leader (2/5) – Senate Finance Committee member Debbie Stabenow and House Energy and Commerce Committee member Jay Inslee are urging congressional leaders to make the creation of high-quality green jobs a top priority of the economic recovery and reinvestment stimulus package.
“Building up this economy with thousands of green jobs is an investment in inexhaustibly renewable resources - human intellect, ingenuity and America’s capacity for working hard to get the job done,” said Inslee.
Sen. Stabenow and Rep. Inslee joined labor, environmental and business leaders to release “High Road or Low Road: Job Quality in the New Green Economy” (PDF). The report challenges the assumption that all the newly created green jobs are good, middle-class jobs. The research revealed wide variations in wages, benefits and labor conditions, with some green-collar jobs paying as little as $8.25 an hour without benefits.
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