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Schumer pledges to include Civilian Climate Corps in $3.5 trillion ‘human infrastructure’ package
Senator Markey:
Based on the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, the program would put young Americans to work on green energy-related projects. Participants would be paid $15 an hour or more for weatherizing buildings, fighting forest fires and capping oil wells.
I was proud to stand alongside Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez this year as we re-introduced the Green New Deal, and also brought forward our new Civilian Conservation Corps, because that legislation is a pathway to new jobs in our country, union jobs for young people so that they can through apprentice programs, not just have a job, but have a career in fighting this climate crisis, and a pathway for education. A pathway for them to pay off their student loans or to go to college. It would center jobs and justice within the vision of a climate-safe future. It would respond to the climate crisis at the scale at which it demands and it would put millions of people back to work in the short term, but it would put millions of people on the pathway to lifelong climate-smart careers. And that means 50% of the Civilian Climate Corps funds must go to environmental justice communities. $15 an hour must be our floor, not our ceiling. And we have to ensure that we need and support the health and childcare
Schumer pledges to include Civilian Climate Corps in $3.5 trillion ‘human infrastructure’ package
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Senator Markey:
Based on the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, the program would put young Americans to work on green energy-related projects. Participants would be paid $15 an hour or more for weatherizing buildings, fighting forest fires and capping oil wells.
I was proud to stand alongside Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez this year as we re-introduced the Green New Deal, and also brought forward our new Civilian Conservation Corps, because that legislation is a pathway to new jobs in our country, union jobs for young people so that they can through apprentice programs, not just have a job, but have a career in fighting this climate crisis, and a pathway for education. A pathway for them to pay off their student loans or to go to college. It would center jobs and justice within the vision of a climate-safe future. It would respond to the climate crisis at the scale at which it demands and it would put millions of people back to work in the short term, but it would put millions of people on the pathway to lifelong climate-smart careers. And that means 50% of the Civilian Climate Corps funds must go to environmental justice communities. $15 an hour must be our floor, not our ceiling. And we have to ensure that we need and support the health and childcare
Schumer pledges to include Civilian Climate Corps in $3.5 trillion ‘human infrastructure’ package
Chuck Schumer, AOC Civilian Climate Corps Press Conference Transcript July 20
Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other Democratic legislators held a press conference on July 20 to discuss the establishment of the Civilian Climate Corps. Read the transcript of the news briefing here.
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