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.
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Will they get to carry a badge and a gun?
I’m in!
Climate Corps reminds me of the old lonely hearts club meetings nothing gets done but they feel better.
How about me????
I’m just an old white guy.
I know I could use some extra money, just not that badly.
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,””
Don’t know but they are looking for people skilled in conflict resolution.
They’ll get snazzy uniforms with brown shirts.
The government cancer continues to spread.
Yup.
Yup.
And yup.
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.
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?”
Those jobs will be gone if Trump is allowed to get back in the White House to complete his third term.
“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.
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.
Shitler Youth (”My butt’s been wiped.”)
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