Attention job-seekers: Uncle Sam wants you (to save the planet)
Ninety years after FDR’s American Civilian Corps, a new federal program aims to train young people for jobs to fight climate change.
After legislative setbacks, President Joe Biden took executive action to create the American Climate Corps. The White House says the workforce training program will employ more than 20,000 Americans, teaching them skills needed to install solar panels, retrofit homes to be more energy-efficient, and even restore wetlands and manage forests.
Reset learns more about the details of the historic program.
GUESTS: Jung Yoon, campaign director, Grassroots Collaborative
Abbey Kruse, communications lead, Sunrise Movement Chicago
Maxine Joselow, reporter focusing on climate change and environment, The Washington Post
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Attention job-seekers: Uncle Sam wants you (to save the planet)
Ninety years after FDR’s American Civilian Corps, a new federal program aims to train young people for jobs to fight climate change.
After legislative setbacks, President Joe Biden took executive action to create the American Climate Corps. The White House says the workforce training program will employ more than 20,000 Americans, teaching them skills needed to install solar panels, retrofit homes to be more energy-efficient, and even restore wetlands and manage forests.
Reset learns more about the details of the historic program.
GUESTS: Jung Yoon, campaign director, Grassroots Collaborative
Abbey Kruse, communications lead, Sunrise Movement Chicago
Maxine Joselow, reporter focusing on climate change and environment, The Washington Post