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...long time congratulating one another on their good intentions before turning to the meeting's single topic: green jobs. The stimulus package bestows $500 million for green job-training programs, $6 billion in loan guarantees for green industries and $5 billion for a weatherization-assistance program that could save homeowners up to $350 per year on utilities. Van Jones, president of Green for All, made an impassioned plea to "give young people the chance to put down that handgun and pick up a caulking gun." Greg Nelson, official Middle Class Task Force liveblogger, commented on an argument among representatives from...
...drools. So Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner found himself the object of intense interest when he went before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify on Tuesday. It was his first major public appearance since his less than inspiring rollout on Feb. 10 of a half-baked plan to save banks that left Washington and Wall Street whispering that Geithner, 47, wasn't ready for prime time...
...Washington's conviction that perception is reality, Geithner's fate rests less on how he performs in public than on how his plans fare: the market and most Americans care a lot more about the substance of the Administration's efforts to save the economy than they do about Geithner's thin delivery. Sure, he doesn't seem to fill his suit, and he talks too quickly, and he swallows the ends of his sentences, and he gives the impression of a grad student taking an oral exam, not someone leading the country out of perdition...
...Irish voters are now venting their rage. On Feb. 21, the country saw its biggest public demonstration in a generation as 120,000 people took to the streets of Dublin. Most were civil servants protesting a levy on public-sector pensions, which the government says will save the country $1.2 billion. Unions are currently balloting members on a planned general strike for March 30, with the head of the country's trade-union umbrella group warning of a "doomsday situation" should the government fail to introduce a recovery plan that gains the support of social partners. According to the most...
...Save 829,000 Kids a Year...