What businesses and sectors seem poised to rebound?
Financial Services and Insurance
Residential homebuilding
Green Industries and Technologies
Green jobs: Jobs in weatherization and retrofitting, energy conservation, and renewable energy
technologies.
Federal Policy Implications:
Federal policies need to provide increased funding for targeted training programs (e.g. for green jobs).
Increased federal investment in transportation infrastructure projects.
Weatherization
and Green Jobs: San Antonio's municipally-owned utility, City Public Service (CPS) Energy, recently announced that it will invest $850 million as part of a comprehensive citywide weatherization, energy efficiency and conservation program: the Save for
Tomorrow Energy Plan (STEP). STEP will help spur the creation new green markets and green jobs, and participants agreed that the City of San Antonio must expand and develop new green jobs training programs to align with this significant investment.
