Opinion: Here’s how to create jobs and rescue our climate – By Ed Potosnak/ Guest Columnist (Stat-Ledger) / Aug 6 2021
President Biden’s transformative Build Back Better Agenda proposes investing $4.1 trillion to fix crumbling roads and bridges while also addressing two of our nation’s most pressing challenges: widening economic inequality and the worsening climate crisis.
It aims to create millions of well-paying, union jobs to help create a more sustainable, 21st-century economy powered by clean, renewable energy that reduces harmful greenhouse gas emissions and takes us off the path of climate catastrophe.
As negotiations over the president’s bold infrastructure package continue in Washington, I am calling on our New Jersey members of Congress to fight hard to ensure the final law includes a new Civilian Climate Corps.
The idea of a Civilian Climate Corps goes back to the New Deal, when President Franklin Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, to put 3 million unemployed young people to work at the height of the Great Recession to address the environmental catastrophe known as the Dust Bowl.
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