Obama Encourages Clean Energy Tax Credit
Posted by jeckert on 07/09/2010
President Obama urged Congress to pass a $5 billion dollar clean energy manufacturing tax credit today to spur job growth.
According to Reuters:
"He [President Obama] estimated that a the $5 billion expansion would generate nearly 40,000 jobs, and the $12 billion or more in private sector investment it is expected to trigger could create up to 90,000 more jobs."Read more here.
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