The climate crisis is real, human-made, and already reshaping our lives. Meeting this moment requires more than small fixes. It requires the clean re-industrialization of our country toward a sustainable future. I support a bold federal green jobs program that puts people to work tackling climate change while strengthening our communities.

That requires a just transition: retraining workers, paying people to go back to school, and investing in industries that heal our planet: clean energy, climate resilience, public transit, and environmental restoration. These must be the union jobs of the future. As such, we should empower the genius in working people to do living wage, unionized work that is both extremely urgent and socially beneficial, not trap them in the fossil fuel jobs of the 20th century. 

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver the largest investment in union jobs, wages, and training since the New Deal. This is our chance to build an economy that prioritizes working families, protects our planet, and leaves no one behind.