Sunday, May 13, 2012

Congratulations are due your trash collectors. They now have a green job.


What if they are picking up trash at a house that doesn't recycle?
 
Obama Calls Trash Collecting a ‘Green Job’ Federal Report: ‘Green Jobs’ Include Trash Collectors A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report counts 3.1 million green jobs in the U.S. economy, but the BLS defines these jobs so broadly that it includes even school bus drivers and trash collectors as “green” workers. “Cheerleaders for the president’s program of green jobs mandates and spending point to the study as confirmation of green jobs’ economic importance,” said David W. Kreutzer, Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation.

1 comment:

Nissa Annakindt said...

If trash collectors have a green job, so does Kermit the frog.