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President Obama’s economic team released an upbeat employment forecast yesterday that predicted robust jobs growth in the health-care and clean-energy sectors, and a recovery in manufacturing positions over the next decade.

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The nation’s first African American to serve as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the honorable Lisa Jackson, will be present at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention in Tampa to discuss the work the agency is conducting to protect the health and environment of all Americans.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled guidelines that will allow companies to apply for some $3 billion in government funds to boost development of renewable energy projects around the country, creating jobs.

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“President Obama and leaders of the world\’s biggest industrialized nations agreed Wednesday to turn down the heat on the planet by going green,” The New York Daily News writes. “The G-8 nations, whose leaders are meeting in Italy, will seek to cut half of all emissions linked to climate change by 2050.”

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U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis last week announced 17 grants, totaling more than $7.5 million dollars, to provide approximately 3,000 veterans with green job training.

Fields of employment include energy efficiency and renewable energy, modern electric-power development and clean vehicles.

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Clean Tech Open today announced the 12 regional semi-finalists in its clean tech business plan competition. The 2009 Clean Tech Open competition includes more than a $1 million in total prizes and a “100K Jobs Challenge” to create 100,000 clean tech jobs in America over the next five years.

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Good news came out of the economy last week. According to The Pew Charitable Trusts, clean energy jobs grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs in the U.S. between 1998 and 2007. That is good news, but those numbers are from before we took a dive into this recession. Here comes the so what…

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A steady drumbeat of reports forecast significant growth in all areas of the clean tech economy over the next two years. Obviously, that hasn’t translated to significant hiring.

“Two thousand nine will be a tough year,” Jigar Shah, founder of Sun Edison, wrote me in an email.

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At today’s meeting of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class in Denver, Vice President Joe Biden called on the White House Council on Environmental Quality to present the task force with proposals to expand green job opportunities and energy savings for the middle class.

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