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White House Releases Initial Report Detailing Existing Resources for Energy Communities Department of Energy Announces $109.5 Million to Support Energy Jobs, Executive Director to Spearhead Interagency Efforts Today, theWhite House Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization released a report that was delivered to President Biden and included the initial recommendations from the Interagency Working Group  to catalyze economic revitalization, create good-paying, union jobs, and support workers in energy communities – hard-hit coal, oil and gas, ...

By John Horvat II | April 21, 2021 | 4:45pm EDT Joe Biden gives a speech. (Photo credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images) When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez co-sponsored the Green New Deal in 2019, most people ridiculed the plan as the ravings of a misguided millennial. The measures seemed outlandish in the face of an economy built on fossil fuels, unlimited travel, and global abundance. Many dismissed her notions as political fantasy. However, such outlandish proposals have a role in history. The celebrated Catholic thinker Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oli...

The New Deal was the crowning achievement of former Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tenure and was credited with being a major factor in carrying America through the Great Depression and World War II. It was the introduction of the “big government” solution to the nation’s financial troubles, and Democrats have been trying to reinvent FDR’s publicly popular plan ever since. Now, President Biden and his administration believe the coronavirus pandemic and all the social and economic ills it has wrought has presented them with a golden opportunity to replicate...

American Jobs Plan Unveiled On Wednesday, March 31, U.S. President Joe Biden outlined roughly a $2 trillion legislative proposal – the American Jobs Plan (“the Plan”) – that would be spread over eight years to build back better the American economy from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The President called it a “once-in-a generation investment in America” that would create skilled jobs, grow the economy, make the country more competitive globally, promote U.S. national security interests, and position the United States to be competitive with China. Among other things, the Pl...

April 2, 2021 On March 31, 2021, President Biden announced the American Jobs Plan, a sweeping proposal that dedicates over $2 trillion to create jobs through repairing and upgrading infrastructure, revitalizing manufacturing, and valuing the caregiving economy. Q1: What has Biden announced and how big is it in context? A1: The American Jobs Plan is the second plank of Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda to both “rescue” the economy from the Covid-19 recession and “recover” in a way that addresses underlying structural constraints and takes advantage of future economic opportuniti...