A New Program Like FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps Could Help the Nation Fight Climate Change and Transition to Renewable Energy
Proposals currently being considered in Washington differ from the New Deal program because of a focus on employing women and people of color and tackling projects in underserved communities.
April 26, 2021
AmeriCorps members with Arizona Conservation Corps, a program of Conservation Legacy, make improvements on the Manning Camp Trail at Saguaro National Park. Photo courtesy of the Corps Network
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Amy Kuo saw firsthand how powerful it can be to tackle the big problems of our times in small ways when she was on a California Conservation Corps work crew a few years ago in the sweltering summer heat deep in a forest outside of Los Angeles. Kuo, now a legislative analyst for the corps, recalls slogging upstream, sometimes waist deep in water or poison oak, hauling gasoline, chainsaws and other heavy gear to clear fallen trees
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Happened in US 40 Years Ago : 87 US Farmers Unions Speak Out for Indian Farmers Protest Reagan era furthered the farm crisis through deliberate federal policy changes, with systematic erosion of parity prices and other deregulatory efforts.
Rakesh Tikait, president of Bharti Kisan Union, one of the largest farmers unions, is helped to get onto a stage upon his arrival to attend a Maha Panchayat or grand village council meeting as part of a farmers protest against farm laws at Kandela village in Jind district in the northern state of Haryana, India, February 3, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui.
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New Delhi: Citing damning examples of Reagan era policies that have led to irreparable damage to the US’s farmers, 87 farmers’ unions in the country have extended solidarity to the ongoing protests by farmers in India.