INDEX: Green jobs for whom?

Unemployment rate for Hispanics: 12.6%

Unemployment rate for blacks: 16.5%

Unemployment rate for black men: 17.6%

Number of times President Obama mentioned "jobs" in his recent State of the Union address: 23

Price tag for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress last year to stimulate the economy: $787 billion

Amount set aside in the bill to create so-called "green" jobs for disadvantaged workers: $500 million

Number of requests granted to include tracking mechanisms measuringthings like the race and residential ZIP codes of those getting greenjobs or training: 0

Percentage of the $25 billion in federal stimulus funds distributeddirectly to private transportation and defense firms that went toblack-, Latino- or women-owned businesses as of last fall: just over 6

Percentage of the stimulus funds such firms were getting as of January 2010: 5

Of the total amount of stimulus funds awarded in Florida, percentage that went to minority-owned firms: 12.6

Of the 40 Florida companies that won Recovery Act-funded business, number that responded to requests for data from researchers: 4

Of 30 state energy efficiency bills examined by researchers, portion that targeted low-income communities or workers of color: less than 1/3

Percentage of black women employed in green jobs: 1.5

Percentage of Latinas: 1

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