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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2010. LC Number: KF27 .E3 2010s OCLC Number: (OCoLC)707932651 Subject: Unemployment -- United States. Excerpt: ... 11 And I have to tell you that the kinds of coalitions that I see oc-curring, and one example I want to share with you is in Florida. Broward County Minority Builders Coalition partnered with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 729, to ex-tend green job training opportunities. And I can go on and on and on about what I have seen in terms of people on the ground actually getting enrolled in these pro-grams, changing careers, even, because they felt the career that they had was at a dead end. And now they see a potential of get-ting into a whole new, perhaps a green job or even one in the health care arena that provides them with a career path, not just a job that is short-term, but a potential to actually move up the ladder. So we are really looking here at investments that are not just about getting out of the recovery, but making a systemic change in our entire infrastructure. And it is about creating good paying jobs, middle-class jobs that will put people back in that position that we have lost over the last decade. I also want to mention that we have also provided grants in Min-nesota. Honeywell and two Chamber of Commerces joined with the United Steelworkers to train workers there. We also provided assistance for women, women in nontraditional roles in Long Beach, California. Through the Women's Bureau, we provided a grant for women in nontraditional roles, in green cur-riculum and also in pre-apprenticeship program. This is an area that we have to continually focus in on. While we believe that more women are participating in the work-force, their earning capacity has not kept at the same rate or equivalent to their male counterparts. And that is something that we have to address. We can do it by working together by providing women with those tools that are necessary. Also
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