Biden says jobs that pay $45 or $50 an hour -- not $7 or $12 -- are part of his climate-infrastructure

[applegrove]

Biden says jobs that pay $45 or $50 an hour — not $7 or $12 — are part of his climate-infrastructure plan

Dominick Reuter at Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-says-50-per-hour-jobs-in-climate-infrastructure-plan-2021-9?utm_source=reddit.com

Biden said workers would earn high wages to prepare for climate change under his resilience plan.

The president's Build Back Better proposal includes jobs that pay "$45 or $50 an hour," he said.

He added that the plan would return $6 in savings for each dollar invested to prevent disaster.

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Jobs that help prepare the US for the changing climate will pay a high hourly wage, President Joe Biden said after touring storm damage in New York and New Jersey on Tuesday.

"I think of one word when I think of climate change: jobs, good-paying jobs," he said. "Not $7 or $12 or $15, but $45, $50 an hour, plus healthcare. That's what is needed."

Biden's $45 figure is more than six times higher than the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, which has remained unchanged since 2009, when Biden was vice president in the Obama administration.

Businesses are increasingly finding it difficult to attract talent by offering less than $15 an hour, making that a de facto minimum wage in some instances.

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[applegrove]

1. Go scorched earth on Republicans Biden. Grrrrrrr RUFF RUFF. Take a bite

out of the pants of the GOP. Maybe GOP base will figure out the only thing the Republicans are offering them is an early death.

[MichMan]

2. Will that be mandated by congress in any climate change legislation?

Sounds like it is in the 3.5 trillion reconciliation bill


The economy would boom if everyone made those wages. People could all buy new electric vehicles, energy efficient homes, and go on extended family vacations. College debt could be paid off quickly if a couple could make $200k a year starting out at these jobs

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. That's why the GOP and their saboteur accomplices are terrified

By insisting on what is called “prevailing wage” rather than contractors who submit low ball bids by underpaying their workers (and profiting from the difference) Biden has spearheaded legislation that will show everyday folks that government can deliver on promises the improve their lives significantly.

And that terrifies the GOP and their accomplices.

[Hortensis]

4. Yes. And it attacks the enormous inequality in wealth distribution.

As the Democrats' New Deal, Fair Deal, Great Society, etc, programs did. Creating new, good paying jobs works.

[mopinko]

5. i'm not sure if davis-bacon has any teeth any more.

and since prevailing wage that is a union wage is not a thing in a lot of places, even that standard doesnt come out to that kind of money.