Biden is unveiling the #AmericanClimateCorps, a program with echoes of the New Deal
"The White House on Wednesday unveiled a new climate #jobs training program that it says could put 20,000 people to work in its first year on projects like restoring land, improving communities' resilience to natural disasters and deploying clean energy."
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200483937/biden-climate-corps-job-training
The #AmericanClimateCorps would employ about 20,000 young adults. It prioritises workforce #diversity.
The initiative will provide #JobTraining and service opportunities to work on a wide range of projects that tackle the #ClimateCrisis, e.g. restoring #CoastalWetlands; deploying #CleanEnergy projects such as wind and solar power; managing forests to prevent catastrophic #wildfires; and implementing #EnergyEfficient solutions to cut energy bills for consumers."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/biden-american-climate-corps-green-jobs
"While the plans are exceedingly modest for now, the Climate Corps could be a means for Biden to make his environmental agenda resonate with younger voters still smarting from the administration’s approval of the #WillowProject.
With #homeownership and major asset purchases still solidly out of reach for many younger voters, the #AmericanClimateCorps #jobs might offer tangible benefits to those left out of the IRA."
https://newrepublic.com/article/175674/civilian-climate-corps-tiny-step-forward-young-activists
"The additional goal of the #AmericanClimateCorps is decarbonization—which will in turn create more #jobs by juicing the green economy, including the booming #HeatPump industry."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/american-climate-corps-joe-biden-youth-workforce/
"The Climate Corps didn’t employ people directly — it was actually a loose network of mostly preexisting positions across a slew of nonprofits, state and local governments, and federal agencies, with many different sources of funding. Take away the “#AmericanClimateCorps,” and little changes. The jobs survive, even if the branding doesn’t."
https://grist.org/politics/american-climate-corps-biden-jobs-program-trump/
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