Kaplowitz’s green-jobs plan
Westchester County Legislator Mike Kaplowitz, a Democrat who is running for the 40th state Senate District, recently put out his plan to create green jobs and generate energy savings for homeowners and businesses. You can read his announcement below. Also running for the 40th are Republicans Assemblyman Greg Ball and Somers Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy, who are facing off in Tuesday’s GOP primary.
From Kaplowitz:
Mike Kaplowitz (D, I), candidate for New York State Senate, today proposed major reforms and tax breaks that will create thousands of green-collar jobs and provide relief for hardworking homeowners and small businesses throughout New York.“The Hudson Valley is suffering. These proposals will create jobs and provide common sense solutions that will spur economic growth and put money back into the pockets of hardworking homeowners,” said Kaplowitz outside the Mount Kisco Public Library. “We are in desperate need of this kind of relief right now.”
Kaplowitz detailed a three-pronged proposal:
· Introduce legislation that would require New York to install 5,000 megawatts of solar power by 2025 – an act that would generate over 22,000 jobs and boost economy output by $20 billion;
· Promote green collar job growth by providing a 30% tax credit for investments in manufacturing facilities that produce clean energy products (and a 10% tax credit or 5% cash grant for geothermal energy providers); and
· Introduce legislation to create a 50,000 smart electric meter pilot program in the Hudson Valley that will increase energy efficiency and lower energy prices for homeowners. Businesses will be provided with a 30% tax credit or 10% cash grant for investments in manufacturing facilities, and homeowners who purchase a smart electric meter will be given a 10% cash grant.“These proposals will provide the Hudson Valley with significant job creation and tax relief while protecting the environment, and promoting energy independence, and alleviating tax burdens on families and businesses alike. It will also help make New York the hub for the development of new alternative energy technologies,” said Kaplowitz.
As Westchester County Legislator and former Chairman of the Westchester County Legislature’s Environment Committee for six years, Kaplowitz has focused on energy issues and led the fight to save taxpayers significant amounts of money while also protecting the environment.
Kaplowitz is traveling non-stop across Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties offering ideas on how to fix New York. He recently proposed a stronger ban on gas zone pricing by Big Oil and Pension Reform measures—each of which will save taxpayers billions of dollars. He also recently detailed a Lake Improvement Plan that will improve local water quality across the district’s 170 lakes.
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Don’t get me started on the job market. My advice to anyone without a job is to become your own salesman, “If I work for you for one year I will make x amount of money for you annually” Apply to jobs that aren’t even advertised because there is no competition, just make sure you sell yourself properly. Also, get into the green job market!! The green job market is constantly expanding. Get BPI Certified, Get become a LEED Green Associate, do something that gets you educated in the energy efficiency industry! The jobs will be there soon enough!!
The green job market is the fastest growing. The reason is there is a double incentive for just about every industry involved, saving money and saving the environment. this make it easy to see why people are interested in all of the companies involved in the green market, which means those companies are growing, which means jobs are being made. This is the perfect setup for sustainable growth in the job market. there are companies providing jobs for people looking to get into the market with or without a business hiring them. you can get numerous different certifications through CleanEdison. They can have you ready to work in no time! definitely worth checking out if you are still looking for a job!!! thanks! great article!
couldn’t agree more.Clean Energy is the future. We were moving towards that for a long time, but especially now with the BP disaster, people are realizing we need to head in the right direction when it comes to energy. Sure we don’t have the technology yet to completely eliminate oil, but we need to start somewhere. Everyone in the country should get an energy audit, and start saving energy and saving money, i can’t tell you how thankful i am that i got into the clean energy industry. I got BPI certified through CleanEdison and now, not only did i find a job, not only am i saving money on my homes energy bills, not only am i saving the environment, but I am trying to tell you folks….do it! trust me, if i can get BPI certified, you can too. its a great job, check it out! CleanEdison is who helped me, very helpful, i took the class in NY but they have them all over.
Of course Green is good BUT what’s Mike Kaplowitz been doing all these years in the county to promote green? He’s running for State Senate and holding news conference after news conference on trendy topics but he doesn’t have the record that supports that he’s genuine. He’s a tax and spend liberal who as head of the budget committee for severl years has increased taxes on the county while spending us into a whole. The 40th SD should beware.
When will we all understand that everything a Democrat proposes ends up costing us REAL jobs and higher taxes? While they cloak their profligacy in “green”, they can’t help themselves from blowing through taxpayer dollars like Grant went through Richmond – much like the “education” lobby which lectures us every year that “it’s all for the kids,” and then, even as test scores fall, they raise our taxes and pocket the money. The first “three” contributors above are so patently obvious in their self-serving printed flatulence that they only can make the intelligent reader guffaw.
Now all of a sudden after all these years of increasing taxes and spending to no end, these three candidates all
want to help people by creating new jobs, when they have
not done one thing in the past to help people here in westchester county in any shape or form. its all a big
farse just to get more votes for the state senate race.
We need a state senator who will stand up and fight for
the people, a senator who is honest, fair, accountable,
trustworthy, one who has integrity, does anyone honestly
believe that any of these three candidates have all these
qualities or are they all full of more hot air just to get
elected? Think about what they have done in the past and
what if anything they will do if elected? Will they just
warm up another seat in ALBANY and create more dysfunction?
Peter Morici, a business professor at the University of Maryland, said much of the green stimulus funding was “squandered.”
“Large grants to build green buildings don’t generate many new jobs, except for a few architects,” he said. “Subsidies for windmills and solar panels created lots of jobs in China,” but few at home.
In one of several embarrassing disclosures for the administration, a report last fall by American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop found that 11 U.S. wind farms used their grants to purchase 695 out of 982 wind turbines from overseas suppliers.