Why Ohio Needs Green Collar Jobs

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Why Ohio Needs Green Collar Jobs

The Key to restarting Ohio's economy is by providing green collar jobs. Green collar jobs are those jobs that are family-supporting, a career track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. Green collar jobs range from low-skill entry-level jobs to high-skill jobs.

Green collar jobs will be good jobs. Jobs that can pay family wages and provide opportunity along a career track of increasing skills and pay. Most green collar jobs are middle-skilled jobs, with reach of lower-skilled and lower-income workers as long as they have access to training programs and appropriate supports.

Green jobs can be installing solar panels, retrofitting buildings, erecting wind turbines, repairing hybrid cars, building green rooftops, planting trees, constructing transit lines, and so much more.

Green collar jobs are an opportunity to create a better economy and a better state all around. We have the chance to create new markets, new technology, new industries, and a new workforce.