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AOC is pushing for $10 billion taxpayer-funded climate corps made up of 1.5m Americans to help boost support for her Green New Deal
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing a new program called the Civilian Climate Corps to create 1.5 million jobs to combat climate change
All employees would be paid at least $15 per hour, according to the bill
The program would cost $10 billion as part of President Joe Biden s $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan
Progressives are branding the new program like that of FDR s New Deal creating the Civilian Conservation Corps to create jobs during the Great Depression
It was terrible. but at least we could nap : Fifth grade students give Joe and Jill Biden their very honest opinions of virtual learning during tour of fully-reopened Virginia elementary school
President Joe Biden is in Yorktown, Virginia, as his administration starts a blitzkrieg to sell its $4.1 trillion in federal spending package
Jill Biden joins him as they visit two schools - an elementary one and college
They talked to fifth graders about home schooling versus in-classroom learning
They also stopped the motorcade to take pics with students
Trip is part of a massive push by administration to sell its $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and $1.8 trillion American Families Plan
President Biden argued he isn t raising taxes to pay for his ambitious $2.1 trillion plans on infrastructure and social programs but is asking wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share.
Responding to these shifting trends, food tech funding flowed into related services.
Food tech companies raised around $17.3 billion across 631 deals for the year. Sixty-eight percent of that went to e-commerce and delivery businesses. Meal kits alone raised $6.2 billion, and e-commerce companies raised $5.3 billion within the food tech category. The largest deal last year was an $800 million round of funding for the Chinese group-buying app for groceries, Xingsheng Youxuan.
The world also saw how a crisis could disrupt the normal production, processing and distribution of food. Farmers had to dump milk and produce that couldn t be shipped or stored, and conversely brick-and-mortar groceries had empty shelves after shoppers hoarded supplies.