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Construction related skills. >> thomas rusty skinner is the ceo of the work force connection. >> those were all options that the participants coming into the program had. >> over the next 8 months work force connection awarded training certificates to 298 students. >> i learned to install solar panels and all about how we should be able to install these things and give power back to the power company. >> robert wilson who lost his job as a warehouse manager earned more than half a dozen green job certificates. >> it took me anywhere from 6 to maybe 7 months. i got installation and solar therma...

>> thomas rusty skinner is the ceo of the work force connection. >> those were all options that the participants coming into the program had. >> over the next 8 months work force connection awarded training certificates to 298 students. >> i learned to install solar panels and all about how we should be able to install these things and give power back to the power company. >> robert wilson who lost his job as a warehouse manager earned more than half a dozen green job certificates. >> it took me anywhere from 6 to maybe 7 months. i got installation and solar thermal installation. >> brian will...

Green job training success stories. we wanted to ask them about the extraordinary story rusty skinnard of the work force connection told us. skinner says he wasn't willing to take the money and run. instead when he could not place the vast majority of green trainees in green jobs he called up the government and tried to return the tax payer's money. >> we are honest people. we are not going to spend your money just because we have got it. we are going to give the money back. we can't make this work. they said to us what will? >> he says the department of labor signed on to a proposal that woul...

>> twoeld you about the government givingour money to solar energy companies. and then more of your money to people who buy their subsidized products. the goal, to create green jobs. and guess what? the government is also training workers to fill them. even if those jobs don't exist, at least not yet. >> screw driver. the module is going to catch right here. >> in 2010 the u.s. department of labor gave nearly $3 million of taxpayer money to the work force connection, a nonprofit organization that in partnership with the college of central florida set out to train the unemployed for new green j...

>> twoeld you about the government giving your money to solar energy companies. and then more of your money to people who buy their subsidized products. the goal, to create green jobs. and guess what? the government is also training workers to fill them. even if those jobs don't exist, at least not yet. >> screw driver. the module is going to catch right here. >> in 2010 the u.s. department of labor gave nearly $3 million of taxpayer money to the work force connection, a nonprofit organization that in partnership with the college of central florida set out to train the unemployed for new green...