Bringing Home the Green Recovery:A User’s Guide to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

This section summarizes what local and state leaders focused on inclusive green job creation should know about the Recovery Act.  Appendix A provides more detail on general Recovery Act provisions. Programs that can be used to build inclusive green economies and create green jobs are spread across a multitude of agencies and across various levels of government. The Recovery Act contains billions of dollars that can potentially be used to create green and equitable communities and pathways to good jobs for those who need them the most. The challenge, though, is that the dollars are spread across a multitude of agencies and levels of government. At the federal level, funds are being administered and distributed by various agencies-including Energy, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Labor-that often don't collaborate effectively. State and local agencies poised to receive hundreds of billions of dollars are equally fragmented. See the summary table of programs analyzed and the in-depth matrix of programs in later sections of this User's Guide for more information.

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