Public Works Program! EPA Specifically Hiring Unemployed for Great Lakes Restoration

[ProSense]

Public Works Program! EPA Specifically Hiring Unemployed for Great Lakes Restoration

by Muskegon Critic

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This is so awesome...the EPA is specifically hiring UNEMPLOYED workers for Great Lakes cleanup efforts. THIS is a jobs plan, right here.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it will spend $6 million to hire unemployed people who can work on Great Lakes cleanup projects.

Congress has appropriated $775 million over the past two years for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a wide-ranging plan to improve the region's environmental health.

The Obama administration moved forward on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and passed over 475 million dollars in Great Lakes restoration funding for 2011 with a plan to spend at least that much every year for five years. That money has been reduced to 300 million for 2012, as one of the items on the budget cut chopping block. I'm not going to complain TOO much.

But for those looking for a public works program...here ya go. A massive environmental restoration effort retooled to be a public works program:

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[MannyGoldstein]

1. Fantastic! But the Republicans will redouble their effort to shut down the EPA

And the Democrats will redouble their efforts to cave.

[great white snark]

2. Ye of little faith.

You really think Dems would cave on such an important agency?

[geardaddy]

3. That is excellent.

As a GL state resident, it's vital that we keep these precious waters clean. Water will be the new oil.

[jenmito]

4. K&R! n/t

[burrowowl]

5. Go Job, EPA!

[jwirr]

6. Glad to hear that. This is the kinds of things that can be done for jobs. nt

[ProSense]

8. Yup, more of this.

Every initiative like this helps.

[Pooka Fey]

7. Good news!