By Lindsay Ignatowski
An excerpt from WMG's Spring 2010 Watershed Moment Newsletter.
"Green-collar job" is a term that came into popular circulation during the 2008 presidential campaign, when Barack Obama pledged to spend $150 billion over ten years to create 5 million green jobs.
A 2009 study by Pew Charitable Trusts found that although overall employment in the U.S. from 1998 to 2007 only grew 3.7 percent, what it calls the "clean en-ergy economy" grew 9.1 percent during the same period. Though concrete sta-tistics about green jobs are hard to find, owing to their nebulous definition, this will soon change; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will create definitions for and start tracking data on green jobs starting this year.
