Presenting POLITICO Energy: What’s the Civilian Climate Corps?

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English - December 28, 2021 10:30 - 7 minutes - 6.46 MB - ★★★★ - 364 ratings
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In the middle of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt founded the
Civilian Conservation Corps, a group responsible for hiring hundreds of
thousands of white men to develop trails and build infrastructure that
is still standing today. Now, Democrats want to create a similar, but
more divers, group to build a new Corps to help the economy recover from
the pandemic and fight climate change at once. POLITICO’s Anthony
Adragna has the details on the plan for a Civilian Climate Corps.

In the middle of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps, a group responsible for hiring hundreds of thousands of white men to develop trails and build infrastructure that is still standing today. Now, Democrats want to create a similar, but more divers, group to build a new Corps to help the economy recover from the pandemic and fight climate change at once. POLITICO’s Anthony Adragna has the details on the plan for a Civilian Climate Corps.