Biden's 'American Climate Corps'

[bobabode]

"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.

“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,'' said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps." AP

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...-Climate-Corps

Cool idea. It might need a higher unemployment rate to hit it's stride. Give the reactionary lunatic party aka the GQP the reins under a Matt Gaetz or one of his fellow travelers and we'll be in a recession within a year.

A sound idea by my lights.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by bobabode

"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.

“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,'' said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps." AP

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...-Climate-Corps

Cool idea. It might need a higher unemployment rate to hit it's stride. Give the reactionary lunatic party aka the GQP the reins under a Matt Gaetz or one of his fellow travelers and we'll be in a recession within a year.

A sound idea by my lights.

Have the GQPists started screaming Soci@lism and indoctrinating yet?

If Joe really wants to send the opposition into a tizzy he could actively recruit immigrants into the corps.

[donquixote99]

I understand why, but isn't this a pretty big thing to create with an 'executive order?'