Green Party Candidate Spisak Lauds Passage of Green Jobs Act of 2007

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Press Release-December 21, 2007

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Green Party Candidate for State Rep of the 60th District Dennis Spisak announced that on  Wednesday, December 19, President Bush signed the Green Jobs Act of 2007, authorizing $125 million for green job training programs across the country!

The Green Jobs Act is part of the Energy Bill, a bundle of policies that is otherwise a mixed blessing. Conservatives stripped out some of the best parts of the package -- like big boosts for solar and wind energy and an end to tax giveaways for oil companies.

Amidst these shortcomings, however, we have our share of great news. For the first time in history, we have a U.S. law that addresses both the climate crisis and the poverty crisis by investing in green-collar job training. The Green Jobs Act authorizes $125 million annually for greening the nation's workforce, enough for training up to 35,000 people every year. Even more unprecedented, it allocates $25 million for "green pathways out of poverty" programs.

"These are the types of programs we need developed here in the 60th district and across the state of Ohio with the help of the Ohio Apollo Energy Alliance." said. Spisak. "Programs like this can help build a green economy in Youngstown that can lift people out of poverty. By working with national programs such as "Green for All', we can help secure billions of dollars to create green pathways out of poverty for 250,000 people that live in our inner cities like Youngstown."

Spisak added "It's progressive programs like these that the Green Party backs that will help our inner city children and youth find work and jobs and create a green manufacturing base to pull them out of poverty and into a new working and middle class. Programs that both the Democrats and Republicans fail to see as a future alternative to helping the poor."