The agency still under financial hardship continues to work toward self-sustainability by participating in innovative capacity building activities, and improving its job programs with three green initiatives, all designed to give central city residents access to training for green collar jobs that will become in demand in the near future.

"The Natural Resources Defense Council issued a report detailing $100 billion in green stimulus investments by the United States in projects that encourage environmental living”, said Robert Miranda, Esperanza Unida’s executive director. “The report states that the investment has the potential of creating 2 million new jobs in two years in the United States.”

According to a report by the Center for American Progress: “Green Economic Recovery Program: Impact on Wisconsin”, Wisconsin’s share of this green job boom, based on combining state’s population and gross domestic product, would be $1.8 billion and 37,165 jobs created.  The report was commissioned by the nonpartisan group Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“Our Green Paper details how Esperanza Unida, along with its partner agency MATC, is planning to give Milwaukee’s central city residents a chance [in our green job training programs] to compete for some of those green jobs”, Miranda said.

 Miranda continued on to say, “despite the fact that we have internal economic issues at Esperanza Unida, we still press forward to meet our mission to move Milwaukee’s central city out of poverty.”

 The Green Paper was a collaborative effort between Esperanza Unida, Inc. and the Milwaukee Area Technical College.

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