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Promise Broken?
Low-Income Workers Find Road to Green Jobs Tough Going

By Claudia Rowe
February 1, 2009

Despite presidential promises to lift those in most need with the federal stimulus act, no one in government is tracking just who is getting those jobs.

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Growing Greener:
Seeds for L.A. Jobs Program Planted Years Ago

By Claudia Rowe
February 1, 2009

Long before “green jobs” became part of the lexicon, a Los Angeles community group started planning for the green economy. In this case, the early bird wins the day.

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Stimulus Relief for Minorities?
Hard to Say

Miami Workers Center
January 18, 2010

Troubling data unearthed by academics and community advocates in Miami shows poor progress in tracking jobs created for minority and low-income workers.

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Workers Scrambling
For Green Jobs

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
November 27, 2009

Low-skilled and low-income, workers hardest hit in the recession are often last in line for stimulus-created green jobs – which are few and far between to begin with.

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