The Obama administration plans to spend some $4 billion from the economic stimulus package to create so-called
"green jobs," focused on making public housing more energy efficient.
The money had been budgeted to renovate public housing. Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan will make the announcement tomorrow at a meeting of President Barack Obama's Middle Class Task Force in Denver.
Meanwhile, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will announce that $500 million from the stimulus will be made available to train workers for the jobs. That includes $50 million for communities hit by job losses in the auto industry.
Donovan and Solis also will announce plans for the Housing and Labor departments to work together to make it easier for public housing residents to find training programs or a green job.
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