QuoteIt's worth letting that sink in, given the learned helplessness that pervades the U.S. today. For months, the White House hasn't been able to figure out how to roll out free Covid-19 tests at anything like the scale required, let alone contact tracing, never mind quarantine support for poor families. Yet in the 1930s, during a much more desperate economic time for the country, state and federal agencies cooperated to deliver not just free tests but free houses.
The TB cabins were just one of thousands upon thousands of projects taken on by the 4.5 million young people who joined the NYA: a vast program started in 1935 that paired young people in economic need, who could not find jobs in the private sector, with publicly minded work that needed doing.
As in the 1930s, this generation is already being referred to as a "lost generation" — but compared to the Great Depression, almost nothing is being done to find them... Young people are discussed, of course. But it is almost exclusively to shame them for Covid partying.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/06/naomi-klein-coronavirus-youth-covid-19-future-unemployment
I've been wondering why we haven't spun up a version of the WPA? (It'd be interesting to see how many would join if it meant manual labor.)
Here the county built a TB Sanitarium out in the country for fresh air.
I had a Great Uncle who was in the CCC. The pay was very small, but since the gov't provided food, shelter and clothing you could have most of whatever you were paid sent home to help your family. Sending money home was important for the young CCC men, it meant it was about more than just them, they had a sense of purpose, they were helping support Mom, Dad and younger siblings.
I think a new CCC would be great for reforestation in re. combating climate change.
Quote from: Brad on August 13, 2020, 07:11:14 PM
I think a new CCC would be great for reforestation in re. combating climate change.
The section in the article on this subject made me wonder how much difference the two billion trees planted by the CCC would make. Sadly, the answer is, "not much."
http://th3core.com/talk/water-coolerextra/about-those-trillion-trees-that-will-fix-the-climate/
The Disease That Helped Put Colorado on the Map - HISTORY
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