How FDR's Original Green New Deal Challenged Jim Crow

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Recruits would work on projects to address climate change (land, water, and energy conservation), community development (schools, clinics, parks, and social services), and environmental justice (impacted communities would provide half the recruits and receive half the projects).
52% : With President Joe Biden's victory last November, the year 2021 has drawn comparisons to the situation faced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) as he entered office in the midst of the Great Depression, and calls for reviving parts of the New Deal have been heard from many quarters.
50% : By late April of this year, Senator Ed Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- leading proponents of a Green New Deal -- had also unveiled their ambitious plan for a Civilian Climate Corps that would employ a diverse group of 1.5 million young people over five years.
47% : This is not idle speculation, because today's challenges of inequality, injustice, unemployment, and global warming are so grave that they can only be met by sweeping federal policies comparable to the New Deal of the 1930s.
44% : Not only is that a profoundly misleading depiction of the New Deal; it's an argument that could well be deployed in the future to weaken support for anything echoing the New Deal -- including the idea of a new Civilian Climate Corps -- even though those kinds of bold federal initiatives are essential to the welfare of all working people in this country.
33% : On the one hand, there's a need to address a set of misleading and ahistorical -- but unfortunately widespread -- arguments that portray the New Deal as fundamentally racist.

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