Jobs Expected to Increase by 95,000 Each Month
There is light at the end of the recession tunnel. According to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the U.S. will add an average of 95,000 jobs each month this year.
President Barack Obama looks out over the snow covered Rose Garden from the Oval Office last week. Photo: Pete Souza, Official White House Photo
In the annual Economic Report of the President, the CEA predicted that unemployment would remain at 10 percent in 2010, dipping down to 9.2 percent in 2011, as reported by NPR News.
Last year, President Obama pledged to double the production of renewable energy over the next three years, create jobs in the development of new energy technologies and increase the energy efficiency of millions of American homes.
On Jan. 8, President Obama announced the award of $2.3 billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy manufacturing projects nationwide.
The funding will be provided to 183 projects in 43 states, creating tens of thousands of clean energy jobs and the manufacturing of clean energy technologies.
“By the third quarter of 2009, real GDP was growing again, and last Friday we learned that the unemployment rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point in January,” writes CEA Chair Christina Romer. “Experts across the ideological spectrum credit the unprecedented policy actions with preventing an economic cataclysm and putting us on the road to recovery.”
But until the release of the report, the President had been criticized for a lack of delivery when it came to the creation of new jobs.
So, what will be the hottest environmental jobs to watch out for? Our top five favorites fall on different ends of the educational and income spectrum and includes solar panel installer, science teacher and conservation biologist.
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