Along with training, the program also aims to provide a pipeline for young people to get hired to green jobs.

  • The White House unveiled the American Climate Corps, a federal program that aims to pay 20,000 young people to get trained in climate-related jobs.

  • The launch comes days after congressmembers sent a letter to Biden urging him to take executive action to create a green workforce program.

  • The program is a new version of a similar initiative Biden proposed in 2021, which Congress ultimately did not pass.

  • AClassyGentleman@lemmy.world
    284·
    1 year ago

    Copy/pasting from another place this was posted (the joys of browsing all instances)

    To be brutally honest, this is fucking peanuts. A jobs training program for a measly 20k people, with nothing to indicate any steps against corporations that are actually responsible for climate change. This should be a slap in the face after (as the article even points out) Biden opened more federal land for drilling.

    We need the energy industry to be taken in to public ownership, with direct accountability to the people (not corporate parties), significant investment into climate stabilization and climate change resistant infrastructure, and have workers (who by and large do not want to burn the planet to the ground) take more control over their workplaces. Biden wouldn’t dare threaten corporate profits, so we’re never going to see anything significant from him.

    • gmtom@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah but there was no way Biden would have the political capital to do any of that even if he wanted to.

    • BertramDitore@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Totally. And a program like this should be for millions of people. Why limit it to young people, and why cap the number at all? Olds can learn new things too, and I’d imagine a dollar invested in training like this would result in way more than a dollar in profit for whatever company does the hiring. I don’t think there’s a risk of training too many people…

  • Someguy89@lemmy.world
    141·
    1 year ago

    I can’t wait to hear the logic from republicans why this is the worst thing in the world and why he should be impeached.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
    61·
    1 year ago

    Why always young people? Older people may have experience and connections that can contribute to making green jobs more effective.