Growing the green job sector is the goal. But that won't happen without the training and retaining of workers, attracting companies (through a trained and retrained workforce), and, of course, sacks of cash. Currently, a lot of Michigan businesses are working toward that goal, along with public and private universities and community colleges.
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So, Michigan is spending about $6 million aimed at not only
retraining workers for all those green jobs, but it will attempt to
quickly play matchmaker between companies that need certain skills and
the retrained workers who have them.
But if you ask Marcia S. Black-Watson, a deputy director at the
Michigan Bureau of Workforce Transformation, the value is much more
than $6 million.
"Schools are dedicating their facilities, employers are offering
their facilities, equipment," she said in a recent interview. "Everybody has a stake in the game. The $6 million is purely what the
state has set aside to help with this effort. But that by no means
equates with the value."
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