Green Jobs Make Up One-Third of Construction Workforce: McGraw Hill

While only 8,035 of the 53,000 who have been trained by the Department of Labor have reportedly found jobs, Green For All reports those figures only include workers who have already been fully trained, and not those who are currently undergoing training or those scheduled to enter training programs funded by Department of Labor grants. Moreover, the organization reports that most training did not begin until the last half of 2010 and said the statistic ignores incumbent worker training -- meaning, those participants who were already employed but were receiving additional training to increase their worth in the labor market. About 40 percent of those trained through the New Energy for America plan have been incumbent workers.