“Green” jobs accounted for 2.4 percent of the nation’s total employment in 2010, the Labor Department reported Thursday in its first-ever survey of green goods and services jobs.
According to the report, which gave a snapshot of the role that environmental consciousness plays in the U.S. economy, the United States had 3.1 million green jobs in 2010, the vast majority of them in the private sector. The public sector listed 860,000 green jobs, the report said.
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It was just over a week ago that former Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith offered a scathing criticism of the investment bank on the op-ed page of the New York Times, further sullying the reputation of a Wall Street firm that has repeatedly taken heat in recent years from critics who accuse it of being an emblem of corporate greed.
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The new iPad hit shelves around the world Friday morning, and across the globe, customers are swarming Apple stores to buy one.
Photos of the crowds show that customers have gone to great lengths to be among the first to step into the store Friday morning. In London, they’re stuffed like sardines behind a barrier gate; in Tokyo, some have slept overnight in sleeping bags on the sidewalks.
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Amazon may be venturing beyond the world of online retail to set up its first brick-and-mortar shop, according to a report from Bloomberg News.
The store will be in Seattle and its focus will be pricier merchandise such as tablet computers, the report says. And its footprint won’t be nearly as large as that of big box retailers such as Barnes & Noble.
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