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Budi

(15,325 posts) Wed Jul 14, 2021, 06:15 PM Jul 2021

Sec Pete Buttigieg's 2019 Civilian Climate Corps Policy Plan

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/04/blast-from-the-past-buttigieg-embraces-national-service.html

THANK YOU, SEC PETE BUTTIGIEG
Well Done

Introduced in the 2019 Primaries by candidates Pete B & Delaney , Civilian Climate Corps was today included in Biden's Infrastructure Bill. CCC full Policy written by Sec Burttigieg & supported by President Biden.

Built upon the history of a tradition that goes back at least to FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps, and was given fresh life in the 1960s when JFK created the Peace Corps and then LBJ launched a domestic counterpart, VISTA.
From the FDR/Kennedy/LBJ approach of multiple years of full-time paid service coordinated as a national program, Sec Buttigieg built his policy plan.

He was guided by the plans of Leaders before him.
"Bill Clinton made national service (an idea constantly promoted by the Democratic Leadership Council which he chaired before running for president) a signature initiative of his 1992 presidential campaign; it nicely reinforced the “community” portion of his “opportunity, responsibility, community” meta-message."

In the path of Bill Clinton's AmeriCorp, supported again by Barack Obama & encourage to expand by Hillary Clinton in 2016, Sec Pete Buttigieg brought it home in the form of Civil Service with.an emphasis on Climate.

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"Obama made an ambitious effort to expand AmeriCorps to 200,000 full-time participants, but again, Republican opposition and funding limitations kept it to around 80,000.

In her 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton revived a family tradition by proposing a large, hybrid expansion of full-time compensated and part-time uncompensated service. She would have tripled the size of AmeriCorps and doubled the post-service educational benefit it offered. Like so many other initiatives, this one died with her campaign; the Trump administration has sought to eliminate funding for AmeriCorps altogether.
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Once again we see the long tradition of Democratic policy on bringing community & country together via Service Corps.
SEC Buttigieg's 2019 policy plan had already been written when he was appointed to Sec of Transportation & presented to President Biden.

Pete Buttigieg did the legwork on The Civilian Climate Corps before he was ever named to the Sec position he now holds.

Again, Biden chose the right people as stewards of America's future.

Credit to Sec Pete B.