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Want to get a job as one of Biden’s 20,000 climate workers? Here’s what you need to know
Fast Company ^ | April 2, 2024 | BY JESSICA HULLINGER

Posted on 04/02/2024 6:24:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The jobs board for the American Climate Corps is set to officially launch in April, and it’s likely to be flooded with eager applicants. Since President Biden announced the New Deal-inspired program in September, more than 50,000 people have expressed interest in joining.

“I think the idea is to make it as broad as possible so all young people can find something, whether they’re at a 7th-grade reading level and they’re coming out of the foster care or juvenile justice system, or whether they’re a PhD candidate at a university,” said Mary Ellen Sprenkel, president and CEO of The Corps Network. Her association represents 150 corps, including AmeriCorps, that will host many of the ACC projects.

Funding for the Climate Corps projects is subject to Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, an executive order requiring at least 40% of the benefits from certain federal programs to go toward disadvantaged communities. “So there will be an emphasis to support project work in environmental justice communities and underserved communities, and enroll young people from those populations,” Sprenkel said.

Though the Climate Corps will be small at launch, the plan is to expand it to 20,000 jobs within its first year. The longer term goal is more lofty: Biden wants $8 billion from Congress to scale the corps and add 50,000 new roles each year through 2031.

He’s unlikely to get that, though. The program has faced sharp opposition from some Republicans who have labeled it “woke” and “radical.” At least one wants to ban it, even though polling suggests a large majority of likely voters (including 58% of Republicans) support a climate corps.

(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: biden; climatecommies; climatecorps; despotism; fascism; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will they get to carry a badge and a gun?

I’m in!


21 posted on 04/02/2024 7:06:13 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate Corps reminds me of the old lonely hearts club meetings nothing gets done but they feel better.


22 posted on 04/02/2024 7:08:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about me????
I’m just an old white guy.


23 posted on 04/02/2024 7:30:46 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I know I could use some extra money, just not that badly.


24 posted on 04/02/2024 7:32:57 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here’s what they’ll do:

“... installing solar panels, restoring vulnerable habitats, and fire hazard prevention. While some positions will require math and science skills or higher degrees in things like environmental science or natural resource management, others will be looking for “basic 21st century work readiness skills like communications, conflict resolution, teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, reliability,””


25 posted on 04/02/2024 7:43:20 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Don’t know but they are looking for people skilled in conflict resolution.


26 posted on 04/02/2024 7:50:17 AM PDT by rocksblues (Thank you Shana Chappell. “You are nobody special Biden!!! America Hates you!!!!!”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’ll get snazzy uniforms with brown shirts.


27 posted on 04/02/2024 7:52:11 AM PDT by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The government cancer continues to spread.


28 posted on 04/02/2024 8:22:02 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: bray
"They will be stuffing the ballot box as their main job.

Yup.

29 posted on 04/02/2024 8:42:50 AM PDT by piytar
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To: bray
"They will be stuffing the ballot box as their main job.

Yup.

30 posted on 04/02/2024 8:42:51 AM PDT by piytar
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To: butlerweave
Wait not an Army but a terrorist group to terrorize us

And yup.

31 posted on 04/02/2024 8:43:17 AM PDT by piytar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We have to get a lot of conservative infiltrators employed in that agency, to alert us of their plans, and perhaps minimize the damage they do.


32 posted on 04/02/2024 9:08:02 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: cymbeline; Liz; Red Badger; Kaslin; BenLurkin; SunkenCiv
While some positions will require math and science skills or higher degrees in things like environmental science or natural resource management, others will be looking for “basic 21st century work readiness skills like communications, conflict resolution, teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, reliability,”

Will any be able to climb a ladder to the rooftop? Turn a screwdriver? Know what a screwdriver or wrench is? Lift a “solar panel”? Hook up wires? Hook up the right color wire? Work outside at all?

No. They'll stay indoors reliably communicating, teamworking (in video games), critically thinking about the weather and whether they will do anything, solving the problem of “how much do I get paid?”

33 posted on 04/02/2024 10:10:08 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Those jobs will be gone if Trump is allowed to get back in the White House to complete his third term.


34 posted on 04/02/2024 11:20:18 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

“Turn a screwdriver? Know what a screwdriver or wrench is ...”

My wish is that those people will be making the big bucks taking care of the helpless ones.


35 posted on 04/02/2024 11:27:30 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv

No. “Taking care of people in need” WAS NEVER an Obama objective for his private army of activists.

These 50,000 agitators are ONLY paid for pushing the Obama-Biden administration agenda of social communism, of tracking and agitating their rent-a-mobs (er, BLM/Antifa protesters) when required and when ordered.


36 posted on 04/02/2024 1:40:45 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: BitWielder1

Shitler Youth (”My butt’s been wiped.”)


37 posted on 04/07/2024 3:04:06 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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