"This is a case where conscience and convenience cross paths, where dealing with this existential threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one in the same. When I think of climate change... I think of jobs."
Before signing Executive Actions on Tackling Climate Change, Creating Jobs, and Restoring Scientific Integrity (Jan. 27, 2021)
When Volkswagen had problems with adapting to climate change and economic conditions, they also thought about jobs, eliminating them by closing plants, the first thing all corporations do when expenses go up and profits go down.
The American Climate Corps appears to be a post-modern version of the depression era Civilian Conservation Corps. That FDR administration effort wasn't actually intended to conserve anything, it was a program to remedy unemployment in the midst of a savage depression.
The Biden/Harris scheme involves paying a rather small hourly wage to successful applicants with the possibility of a pathway to coveted federal employment and other benefits after their training period.
While there's been much publicity over the initiation of the Corps, evidently little of note has emerged of tangible results so far. Wikipedia supplies what details are available.
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