MCTF Meeting 4: Building a Strong Middle Class through a Green Economy
Next week on May 26th the Middle Class Task Force
will hold its fourth official meeting entitled "Building a Strong
Middle Class through a Green Economy." The town hall style meeting will
be held at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science where the President signed the Recovery Act and kicked off a new wave of green jobs across the country.
The first meeting of the Task Force
was also on this topic -- held in Philadelphia it explored the vision
and possibilities of green jobs. This meeting will start looking at
how those possibilities are becoming reality, and how the full
potential of that vision be reached. The impressive roster of attendees
will include Vice President Biden (Chair of Task Force), Labor
Secretary Hilda Solis, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, Secretary of
Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, US
Trade Representative Ron Kirk, and Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green
Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on
Environmental Quality.



