American Climate Corps Will Put Thousands of Young People to Work in Green Jobs – By Dan Avery (CNET) / Sept 20, 2023
The initiative is modeled after a program that employed millions of Americans during the Great Depression.
The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled the American Climate Corps, a public-service and workforce-training program intended to prepare young people for jobs in clean energy, climate resilience and environmental conservation.
More than 20,000 recruits are expected to be enrolled in the initiative’s first year. They will be assigned to an array of projects, including managing forests, restoring coastal wetlands and implementing clean energy infrastructure.
“We’re opening up pathways to good-paying careers, lifetimes of being involved in the work of making our communities more fair, more sustainable, more resilient,” White House climate policy advisor Ali Zaidi said at a briefing on Tuesday, NPR reported.
The program is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that put millions of young men to work during the Great Depression, restoring public lands and building out national parks.
