The rise of “green” may finally have begun to help the US economy. New Bureau of Labors statistics claim that 3.1 million Americans were employed in green jobs in 2010. The agency itself admitted the figures are hardly decisive. Rick Clayton, chief of the division of administrative statistics and labor turnover at BLS said “To think that we could track an organic tomato would make the definition too broad and it would be uncollectible.” If the figures are even directionally correct, 4.4% of people in Vermont have green jobs, the highest among all states, compared with the lowest–Florida–where the rate is only 1.3%.
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