Most of which got sent back to my grandmother..We did not have much growing up.
To me this makes a lot of sense. I keep hearing about how our roads, highways and bridges are in need of repair... This would be a great time to implement a fix to our infrastructure.
How to do it??? beyond my pay grade... I'm clueless on this point...
YMMV
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Family was scattered all over the state. One of my chief memories were all the road signs "WPA 193-," long before I knew what the WPA was. John Maynard Keynes advised FDR to hire people to dig holes and fill them up again, if there was nothing better for them to do. But there were many things better to do, and individuals and society were so much better off.

Trumpy-boy could do a lot to keep his failures away from public scrutiny. An infrastructure program could be one of them, but Trumpy-boy won't be able to figure out how a massive endeavor like rebuilding on a national scale can hand over billions to his favorite cronies and NOT be uncovered by his political opposition. Trumpy-boy is all about corruption. That's why he hasn't moved on "infrastructure week." Remember that version of happy-talk?

How do you work around that? Some of the CCC were college kids.

On one of my summers during college, I worked a government-funded job building nature trails and clearing brush. It was hard, but I liked it (a lot of what I did was grunt work, pushing wheelbarrows full of rocks, clearing weeds, carrying railroad ties).

student loans... they will come a runnin'
Pay med student loan and have them work one,two or three years in underserved areas..
Lots of carrots to dangle in front of them....
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Infrastructure jobs are construction welding, heavy equipment,etc. They can include line work, HVAC, solar, and so much more. Work with union leaders on what the training should involve. Turn some of the programs into an apprenticeship.

Take a kid in an impoverished area, not ready for college but wants to work. There are no jobs. The only one sniffing around is the military. Tell him or her that there's a program where you will work hard but you'll see new places and when you're done you'll have paid training in a decent paying field. More will sign up than you think.

He was 17y/o at the time. In Eastern Oregon - he worked on building roads and creating irrigation for the ranches and farms of the area. In the State of Washington - he fought forest fires and hauled rocks used for the building of the Coulee Dam. I remember him saying it was the best year of his life.

The boys of the CCC's made $30.00 per month - $25.00 was sent home to their families back home and $5.00 went into their pockets for spending money. They were known as the $1.00 a day boys. Camps were built in every State and their very presence in communities that they inhabited - boosted the economy in those communities. At the end of the CCC's many of the boys ultimately settled down in those same communities and built their lives around those communities.

The CCC's restored almost 4,000 historical structures and developed over 800 state parks. They also prevented soil erosion on over 20 million acres of land, stocked more than 1 billion fish, planted three billion trees, surveyed and mapped millions of acres and hundreds of lakes, installed approximately 5,000 miles of water-supply structures, built over 63,000 buildings and more than 7,000 impounding and large-diversion dams, constructed more than 27,000 miles of fences and over 3,000 fire lookout towers, improved 1,000's of beaches, built 1,000's of miles of foot-, horse- and truck trails, assisted the Bureau of Biological Survey in developing an nationwide system of wildlife refuges and performed more than a thousand other similar types of tasks.

This whole effort grew out of a need to get the country back on foot from the Great Depression and was a critical part of FDR's New Deal. The program ran from 1933 to 1942. It ended soon after Pearl Harbor.

I call the boys of the CCC's - the forgotten men of the Greatest Generation. Since I learned more about the CCC's in an attempt to know my Dad better (I lost him at a very young age) I found out that most people don't even know that the CCC's existed and don't know of the contribution that they made to the building of this country.

I feel very impassioned that American's learn about the important contribution that these boys made to the building of American. I would like to see a monument or memorial be constructed in Washington D.C. honoring their efforts so that all future generations of our youth could learn about the contribution that these boys made.

As African Americans and other minorities were excluded from New Deal programs.

> Shut down and remove coal fired power plants and restore lands destroyed by coal mining.

> Create walkable energy efficient urban areas and high density suburbs; places where residents don't need to own cars.

> Build safe, comfortable housing for the homeless, largely built by residents themselves.

> Rebuild our schools and train teachers, with emphasis on smaller class sizes, universal literacy and numeracy, science, critical thinking skills, and realistic sex education.

> Bring high speed internet to rural areas, subsidizing the service for those who cannot afford it.

> Remove dangerous and environmentally destructive dams. (Yes, some dams built as Depression era work projects...)

etc.

before FDR was elected and started doing things like this. Hoover did zilch, was of the mindset that the Government has no business helping the unfortunate poor and downtrodden. Same with Republicans today.

Which is why we need the Democrats to sweep the House, Senate, and Presidency this year. And be ready to go with an agenda that will make FDR's Hundred Days look like a snooze fest.

I am not sacrificing my children. They are only in their 20s, but the way this disease is going, they could die. I will let other sacrifice at the altar of Trump. When Trump is out of office, and the virus has gone away, my boys can take their chances.