Here's What A Civilian Climate Corps Could Look Like
A new proposal from an influential policy outfit outlines how the Biden administration could put 1.5 million Americans to work.
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Civilian Conservation Corps worker Carl Simon installs insulators on top of a telephone pole about 1940 in Superior National Forest in Minnesota.
It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a few months earlier, a massive hurricane destroyed dozens of homes in your town, even killed a few of your neighbors. Your house was fine, but you lost power for weeks. The waterfront park where you liked to eat lunch between shifts as a cashier is underwater. Trees are still down, and mudslides cover several roads, making it basically impossible to pick up the extra money you made driving an Uber. Despair starts to eclipse the guilt you feel for surviving the storm.