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Eric McDaniel

Biden is unveiling the American Climate Corps, a program with echoes of the New Deal

President Biden promised to create the Climate Corps during his first week in office. It's a program meant to appeal to young climate activists. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

The White House on Wednesday unveiled a new climate jobs training program that it says could put 20,000 people to work in its first year on projects like restoring land, improving communities' resilience to natural disasters and deploying clean energy.

The American Climate Corps is modeled after a program that put millions to work during the Great Depression. President Biden's climate policy adviser Ali Zaidi told reporters that the program has broader goals beyond addressing the climate crisis.

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