[Oldeconomybuyer]

My greenjobonometer calculated we have 26,894,693 green jobs.

[TigersEye]

I see no real definition of what constitutes a “green job” in the article. Just some vague allusions as to how they come up with it.

[NewHampshireDuo]

All golf pros
All timber industry folks
All employees of town dumps, er, recycling centers
The guy who says “paper or plastic”

[Tallguy]

The CCC had “leaf-raking jobs” during the Great Depression; the Great Recession has “Green Jobs.”. Same diff.

[M Kehoe]

Good evening.

At least 3.1 million Americans are employed in green jobs, a sector that now accounts for about 2.4 percent of the nation's total employment, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Do "green jobs," include picking lettuce?

5.56mm

[wizr]

Maybe they mean all the lawn mower pushers in Kalifornia.

[traditional1]

3.08 Million of those jobs are Government drones on the Public Dole, I would imagine......

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Grass cutters and landscapers, lawn chemical companies, golf course management, superintendents and crews. OK, it adds up! /S

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I had a "Green Job" in high school many decades ago. I'd guess 3 million of the 3.1 million claimed by Labor are actually like my old job.

Obama must really be desperate to recycle the nonsensical "jobs saved" argument. I thought it was booed and laughed out of existence.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

September 22, 2011. Linda Solis, US Secretary of Labor, labors to explain to Connie Mack why driving a hybrid bus is a "green" job but driving a regular bus is not "green."

[TexasNative2000]

Expect a couple of weeks worth of "green-friendly" reports and news from this administration.

Obama is just buttering up the Greens for his soon-to-come reversal on the Keystone XL.

[kiryandil]

This is the same BLS that accepted California's claim that it added 260,000+ jobs over the last year, while the state's personal income tax revenue was dropping more than half a billion dollars...

I guess the "new workers" weren't required to do any withholding...