Robbery and Waste

"But the results of the program are even worse than these numbers
suggest.

"First, of those workers who completed the training and entered
employment, 38 percent already had jobs, and got a new job with the same
employer or another one. Unlike other Labor Department training
programs, employed workers are permitted to enroll.

"Second, of all those who completed training, almost half went through
programs of five days or less. That's substantially less than other
Labor Department training programs.

"Third, of all the green-trained workers who got jobs, the largest group,
36 percent, was in the category of "energy efficient building,
construction, and retrofitting." That means jobs such as insulation and
weather stripping, not substantially different from other construction
jobs. The next largest group, 34 percent, was employed in "an industry
not specified as green."

"Relatively few green trained workers got jobs in renewable electric
power (5 percent), the manufacture of sustainable products (4 percent),
energy efficiency assessment (3 percent), energy efficient vehicles (3
percent), deconstruction and materials use (2 percent), or biofuels (1
percent)."

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