‘Franklin Roosevelt saved his life’: How a popular New Deal jobs program inspired Biden’s Climate Corps

‘Franklin Roosevelt saved his life’: How a popular New Deal jobs program inspired Biden’s Climate Corps

Upworthy

Published

FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps provided job and skills to 3 million men. While Biden’s program is much smaller, people hope for a similar impact. In the 1930s, a 24-year-old farmer in Indiana, Ed Young, lost his farm and could barely afford to feed his family. He joined a new government jobs…

#indiana #edyoung #readfullstory

Full Article