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		<title>Creating Good Jobs and New Markets Through Energy Efficiency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Center for American Progress: In this paper, the Center for American Progress and Energy Resource Management look at state regulations and incentives for energy efficiency that are working today in leading states to accelerate demand for energy efficiency services, businesses, and ultimately jobs. As this market rapidly grows in coming years, states that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity Maine Canvasser Job posting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opportunity Maine Canvasser Job Description Opportunity Maine promotes innovative investments in Maine’s people, communities and economy. To further our mission, Opportunity Maine is launching a public education drive, in the greater Bangor Region, to talk with people about the economic benefits of home weatherization. Opportunity Maine is hiring canvassers for this project in the greater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is a blog post</title>
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		<title>Despite predictions, state&#8217;s green economy yet to bloom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY TUX TURKEL, Maine Sunday Telegram When heating oil spiked in 2008, roughly 500 Mainers took a state housing authority course to become weatherization technicians. Another 200 became certified energy auditors. Then two unexpected things happened: Oil prices collapsed and the country plunged into a deep recession. The result was that fewer people had the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opportunitymaine.org/energy/despite-predictions-states-green-economy-yet-to-bloom/</link>
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		<title>Federal program to make college more affordable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Cliff Ginn and Rob Brown With so much attention on health care, few have noticed that Congress just passed crucial legislation to expand educational opportunity. Increasing access to higher education and training is the best way to prepare Americans with the knowledge and skills that the 21st century economy demands. Raising the proportion of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opportunitymaine.org/education/federal-program-to-make-college-more-affordable/</link>
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		<title>Maine&#8217;s Legislature should focus on jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Cliff Ginn Sun Journal, Mar 21, 2010 Recently, Gov. John Baldacci and Democratic legislative leaders unveiled two bond packages to promote job creation. These proposals move in the right direction, but should go further. In a recession, consumer spending and business investment plummet, leading to massive job losses. In the short term, those jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Voices: For green jobs, should graduates stay or go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a serious shortage of environmentally friendly jobs in Maine that match the education schools offer. By ADAM MARQUIS, Portland Press Herald PORTLAND &#8211; Forget death and taxes. The two certainties of life in Maine are a lack of good-paying jobs and high and volatile energy costs. On education, as a recent college graduate facing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opportunitymaine.org/education/maine-voices-for-green-jobs-should-graduates-stay-or-go/</link>
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		<title>Investing in Human Capital in Difficult Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maine’s Competitive Skills Scholarship Program by Sandra S. Butler, Luisa S. Deprez, John Dorrer, &#038; Auta M. Main The authors describe how the Competitive Skills Scholarship Program, administered by the Maine Department of Labor, aims both to meet the needs of Maine employers through improved access to a skilled labor force and to improve job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opportunitymaine.org/education/investing-in-human-capital-in-difficult-times/</link>
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		<title>Well-Kept Secret: Job Retraining Program Offers a Lot for a Little</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reported By: Susan Sharon It may be one of the best kept job-retraining secrets in Maine. It offers an attractive benefits package and good pay and the training program itself is free. And it&#8217;s being held up as a model for how business, education and labor can help strengthen the new economy. Stacey Timberlake of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.opportunitymaine.org/media/well-kept-secret-job-retraining-program-offers-a-lot-for-a-little/</link>
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		<title>Energy economy needs skilled workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Brown and Don Berry Maine&#8217;s intertwined economic and energy challenges have deep roots. We have the nation&#8217;s oldest housing and work force, greatest reliance on heating oil, and highest percentage of young people neither working pursuing education. Electricity costs are high, and Maine has the lowest income and education levels in New England. [...]]]></description>
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