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There is a segment of the U.S. economy that employs more than 100,000 people â€" and during the past year, employment in that segment grew by more than 6.8 percent.
 
Compare that to the 0.7 percent growth in the economy as a whole and this is clearly a bright spot in the still-struggling American economy.
 
That bright spot is the U.S. solar industry. And despite some well-publicized glitches, solar is one of the fastest-growing industries in the nation â€" and poised to continue growing and supplying more clean power to millions of Americans.
 
The recent grilling of Solyndra executives before the House Energy and Commerce Committee was a headline-making affair â€" but it did little to address the real issue: the need to curb America’s dangerous addiction to foreign oil while investing in domestic energy.
 

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