SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) - Inside an old home in west Seattle, 23-year-old Joseph Cortez is cutting insulation as an instructor looks on. He gets praise for catching on quickly. He's a trainee with the Laborers International Union of North America. His new position is part of a demonstration project, meant to show what the federal government's five billion dollars in stimulus spending for weatherization can do. The union says their training program could create thousands of high-quality jobs and upgrade millions of homes in Washington State alone.

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