Extreme heat means 2/3 of North America could suffer blackouts this summer

Re:Extreme heat means 2/3 of North America could suffer blac... by JimtheCoder on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:47PM (#36484015)

"we should be ending unemployment insurance and moving to guaranteed employment and utilizing unemployed folks for public service projects such as solar installs."

While I agree with that, it seems the implementation of a program like that would be quite difficult...especially considering how difficult it is to get pretty much anything done.

Are these new workers doing things that other union workers could be doing? Would they have to join the union? Those two simple things would derail any plan like that for one side of the isle in the US, at least.

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Re:Extreme heat means 2/3 of North America could suffer blac... by maerF0x0 on Monday June 26, 2023 @02:49PM (#36484053)

I agree politically it's a hard change. I'm just speaking about ideal policies at this point.

Perhaps a wide retraining program offering. Something like "Hey you've been unemployed for 2 years, you're losing benefits starting (sometime). To help you along you can take a free solar installer course paid by the tax payer."

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