FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps helped repair the country. Is it time to revive it?

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By Matt SimonOct 24, 2020, 3:55 am262 pts
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1933, with the country deep in the Great Depression, the United States government created the Civilian Conservation Corps, a work program that gave young men jobs transforming the American…

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