MOBILISING A ZERO CARBON ARMY: green jobs for young people
In this episode:
More than a million young people could be unemployed in the wake of the current crisis. How can we create opportunities for young people to find work and contribute to tackling the climate crisis? Historian David Woolner talks through lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps - established in the US in response to the Great Depression. Youth Futures Foundation’s Anna Smee and the Resolution Foundation’s Kathleen Henehan discuss the problem of youth unemployment today. And Martin Moore explains his exciting idea for a Youth Environment Service.
Guests
David Woolner, professor of history at Marist College in New York, resident historian at the Roosevelt Institute and author of ‘The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace’
Anna Smee (@AnnaSmee1), chief executive of the Youth Futures Foundation
Kathleen Henehan (@kathleenhenehan), research and policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation
Martin Moore (@martinjemoore), director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at Kings College London
More info
Youth unemployment
Resolution Foundation: Class of 2020: Education leavers in the current crisis (May 2020)
TUC: A new plan for jobs: Why we need a new jobs guarantee (May 2020)
Employment Studies: Getting Britain back to work (May 2020)
Youth Futures Foundation: Securing a place for young people in the recovery (May 2020)
Guardian: Labour to plan green economic rescue from coronavirus crisis (May 2020)
BBC: One million under-25s face unemployment, study warns (May 2020)
NYT: 7.7m young people are unemployed. We need a new ‘Tree Army’ (May 2020)
FDR’s New Deal & young people
D Woolner: Saving a “Lost Generation” through the NYA (May 2011)
D Woolner: FDR and the New Deal response to an environmental catastrophe (June 2010)
D Woolner: Saving a Generation and our Country – Lessons from the New Deal (May 2009)