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James Lankford: “The challenge is not employment, the challenge is the number of what is a green job and what is not.”

On the recordJune 5, 2012
The challenge is not employment, the challenge is the number of what is a green job and what is not.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford discusses the ambiguity in defining green jobs and their actual employment numbers.

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