Posted by
Defend America on Monday, November 09, 2009 7:17:21 PM
Painting a street green hasn't stimulated one new job
Energy-efficiency investments Tangible gains still ahead for $25 billion initiative
By Alec MacGillis
Saturday, November 7, 2009
In Baltimore, the 300 block of East 23 1/2 Street is getting patched up
in time for winter. One economic stimulus program is paying to insulate
11 rental rowhouses, another is paying for furnaces and a third is
covering the cost for reflective roofs to be installed by prison
inmates in a job-training program.
The block is part of one of the biggest initiatives ever undertaken
by the federal government, a nationwide push to improve the energy
efficiency of buildings. But as the national unemployment rate crosses
into the double digits and Republicans question the stimulus program's
impact, the work on East 23 1/2 -- even with all of its activity -- has
so far not produced a single job.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110603919.html?nav=rss_business