Sunday, July 10, 2011

Auto industry, seeing new life, is on hiring spree

DETROIT – Volkswagen opened a plant in Tennessee last month with 2,000 workers. Honda is hiring 1,000 in Indiana to meet demand for its best-selling Civic. General Motors is looking for 2,500 in Detroit to build the Chevy Volt.

Two years after the end of the Great Recession, the auto industry is hiring again - and much faster than the rest of the economy. As an employer, it's growing faster than airplane manufacturers, shipbuilders, health care providers and the federal government.

Three California PV Solar Plants Expected to Create 1,400 Jobs

Building on the momentum of our SunShot Initiate, Secretary Chu announced nearly $4.5 billion in conditional loan guarantees to three California photovoltaic solar power plants today.  These projects are expected to create 1,400 jobs in California and hundreds along the PV module supply chain across the country.

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