Indiana still awaits Obama's promised green recovery | World news | guardian.co.uk

More than a year after the president visited to announce a new era of green jobs, the grant he promised has not materialised and unemployment is high
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Fourteen months on, fewer than a dozen of the 700 promised jobs have appeared – and there is no sign of the promised $39m grant. An additional $44m in government loan guarantees has also failed to materialise.

The recovery funds that did flow in, such as the $4m for a 1,800m (6,000ft) runway for a local airport that gets no commercial traffic and is only open to private jets, have come under attack from conservatives.
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The spotlight produced by Obama's presidential visits also attracted a number of clean energy scam artists – willing to set up shop to Elkhart, but only if they got stimulus funding first.