The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers projected clean power generation employment grew in every state and the District of Columbia last year, including a 19 percent increase in the coal country hub of West Virginia.
In an analysis published Monday, White House economist Heather Boushey projected that overall, the U.S. added 21,000 power generation and supply jobs between January 2021 and March 2023. While the beginning of this period coincided with the lifting of many of the precautionary measures around the COVID pandemic, Boushey wrote that the majority of the job growth has come since August 2022, when President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act into law.
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