From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org):
PennFuture has released a new report entitled A Green Stimulus & Recovery Platform for Pennsylvania: Putting Pennsylvania Back to Work and Investing in a Sustainable Economy.
This report is the culmination of months-long work by many members of the PennFuture team. It is a a detailed policy agenda to stimulate job growth and a green recovery with four overarching goals:
“First, Pennsylvania must safely and equitably restart the economy in a way that protects human health from both the pandemic as well as pollution. A good start is financially supporting the agriculture and outdoor recreation small businesses that are in crisis. Without state support, these industries that employ hundreds of thousands of people may severely retract because of troubled summer and fall harvest and tourist seasons.
Second, policymakers should avoid state budget cuts that will harm economic recovery and set back our nature-based businesses. The first big test will come this fall when the Legislature returns to Harrisburg to pass a state budget.
Third, our state officials should target recovery investments that put Pennsylvanians back to work rebuilding our natural infrastructure. Policymakers should create a modern Civilian Conservation Corps that hires unemployed workers to rebuild our state parks and forests, supports farmers and pursues projects to clean our streams and conserve our lands.
Fourth, a recovery agenda should support Pennsylvania’s homegrown sustainable industries, like clean energy, that have long-term growth trajectories and are far outpacing polluting industries nationwide in job creation both before and during the pandemic.”
Read more from our op-ed rolling out the plan in this morning’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, penned by PF executive vice president & chief of staff Matthew Stepp: https://tinyurl.com/y5jvjofv.
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