Funding for green jobs training coming to the Twin Cities

[Minneapolis Saint Paul Business Journal] “The city of Minneapolis will receive $4 million from the federal government to provide green-jobs training to the underprivileged around the Twin Cities. In addition, a Minneapolis-based partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations received $5 million under the same initiative. The Blue Green Alliance, launched in 2006 by the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, will spend the $5 million in job-training money across much of Minnesota.” (read more)

“I joke with my friends that Seward is like NYC. There’s international cuisine, corner stores, a live music hot spot, a co-op, a clay center & gallery, a playwrights’ center, a gym, a bagel shop, and even a bowling alley…We border the Mississippi-who needs Central Park when you can jog along the river?”

- Matt
Seward neighborhood, Minneapolis

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