This Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work
With what author and activist Naomi Klein calls “galloping momentum,” the “Green New Deal” promoted by Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appears to be forging a political pathway for solving all of the ills of society and the planet in one fell swoop. Her plan would give a House select committee “a mandate that connects the dots” between energy, transportation, housing, health care, living wages, a jobs guarantee and more.
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A network of public banks could fund the Green New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt funded the original New Deal.
