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The Inter Press Service featured a story on ARC's Green Equity Toolkit, with interviews by co-authors Yvonne Liu and Terry Keleher.
"Green" Jobs Should be Black and Brown Too explains that the Obama administration's drive to promote a new green economy is not working in the interest of poor people in the United States, especially those who belong to minority communities.
Here is an excerpt: Last February, the Obama administration earmarked 200 billion dollars of the 787-million-dollar American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for creating green jobs programmes. Keleher and Liu decided to investigate whether those 200 billion dollars have made a difference in the lives of poor U.S. citizens, and found it a harder task than they had anticipated. "Tracking funds from the Recovery Act has proven to be difficult, because there is no centralised, authoritative source of where the money is going to and what it's being used for," Liu told IPS. The act does not require recipients to stipulate race and gender in their data. However, the report's authors said their findings regarding recovery allocations by race, gender and class are troubling. A sample of their analysis shows that the funds are not reaching those hardest hit by the recession. The report mentions several cases where both the authorities and recipients seemed to lack concern for compliance with U.S. anti-discrimination laws. In Florida, for example, African Americans received only about two percent of the total contracts. Latinos got six percent, and women received less than two percent. Read the full article here. |
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