After three years, California still has not created the jobs promised when voters passed a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations to help create clean-energy jobs by funding energy efficiency projects in schools. Only 1,700 jobs have been created, which is barely one-tenth of those promised. Instead, more than half of the US$297 million given to schools has gone to consultants and energy auditors.
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