AFRO: D.C. Unemployed Pin Hopes on Green Jobs

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Excerpt:

Don D. Davis, 42, a homeowner in Ward 8, has been unemployed about a year and a half. Hopeful that a job fair hosted by U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton would be different from the others he had attended, he prayed it would be so.

Norton’s job fair which billed more than 100 employers drew the attention of more than 4,000 residents, almost twice as many as had come in 2010. Surprisingly, Davis was one of the lucky ones to get hired on the spot.

Davis was selected by Leone Construction, a minority-owned business that has a contract from the District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility (DESEU) project, to weatherize low income and multi-family units by swapping regular light bulbs with energy efficient ones, wrapping hot water tanks and replacing window air condition units and refrigerators with energy efficient appliances. In addition, small businesses like restaurants will receive energy faucets to reduce the amount of water used.

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