Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There are only two ways to have a middle class in your country: either you have highly skilled manufacturing jobs, or you… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet,"… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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