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Pulling back the curtains on wage-theft enforcement in MN; Trump's latest attack is on RFK, Jr; NM LGBTQ+ equality group endorses 2024 'Rock Star' candidates; Michigan's youth justice reforms: Expanded diversion, no fees.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says rebuilding Baltimore's Key Bridge will be challenging and expensive. An Alabama Democrat flips a state legislature seat and former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82.

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Help Wanted Report: 37,000 New Jobs for Arizona

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008   

Phoenix, AZ – The lure is thousands of new jobs with a "cure" for climate change pollution, a broken economy, and a burst housing bubble. A new report from the University of Massachusetts documents how investing in a "green" economy nationally would play out locally. The study sets up a $100 billion investment scenario, with most of the money coming from climate change pollution cap-and-trade investments, creating more than 37,000 jobs for Arizona.

Cathy Duvall with the Sierra Club says the time is right for investing in "green" as an economic stimulus.

"This report really demonstrates that the solutions to the serious problems of climate change and a struggling economy are both intertwined and within our grasp."

Duvall believes doing the same old things on energy and economic policies isn't going to reverse the current situation, and a new approach is needed to benefit working families.

"Addressing our country's energy crisis and the high cost of oil, we can create manufacturing and other jobs to replace some of the more than 600,000 jobs lost in this last year alone."

The study shows jobs created would include steelworkers, machinists, roofers and accountants.

Critics of the report say the numbers are "overly optimistic" and argue that some of the jobs, such as construction work, would not be long-term.

The report was written by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and commissioned by the Center for American Progress. The full report is available online at
www.peri.umass.edu.




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