silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months agoOn Earth Day, Biden is launching a new site to apply for Climate Corps jobswww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down10
arrow-up180arrow-down1external-linkOn Earth Day, Biden is launching a new site to apply for Climate Corps jobswww.npr.orgsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squaresnorkbubs@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 months agoReminds me of the Conservation Corps. As much as I support the concept, programs like this are not for people who need money.
minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agodid it provide food and lodging?
minus-squaresnorkbubs@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoPossible lodging, no food. It was quite a few years before I could afford a month’s worth of food in one go, and I was too old to join by then. The way they (people my own age) handled telling me that I was too poor to join their club, left a lasting impression.
minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agothats where it fails. the depression era stuff they got a cot and meals in a mess hall and then they could send their money home to their families.
Reminds me of the Conservation Corps. As much as I support the concept, programs like this are not for people who need money.
did it provide food and lodging?
Possible lodging, no food.
It was quite a few years before I could afford a month’s worth of food in one go, and I was too old to join by then. The way they (people my own age) handled telling me that I was too poor to join their club, left a lasting impression.
thats where it fails. the depression era stuff they got a cot and meals in a mess hall and then they could send their money home to their families.