WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Saturday that a transition to cleaner energy will help create more American jobs as he promoted his new initiative designed to reduce US energy imports by a third. Shifting toward a clean energy economy “will ensure that the United States of America is home to the jobs and industries of tomorrow,” Obama said in his weekly address after new figures showed the unemployment rate reached a two-year low in March, signaling a turnaround in the troubled labor market. “That's how we'll win the future. And that's how we'll leave our children an America that is more secure and prosperous than before.”
