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Portrait of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal (2019)

Whereas the Federal Government-led mobilizations during World War II and the New Deal created the greatest
middle class that the United States has ever seen, but many members of frontline and vulnerable communities were excluded from many of the economic and societal benefits of those mobilizations; and
Whereas the House of Representatives recognizes that a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal era is a historic opportunity—
(1) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States
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Portrait of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal (2019)

Whereas, because the United States has historically been responsible for a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gas emissions, having emitted 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions through 2014, and has a high technological capacity, the United States must take a leading role in reducing emissions through economic transformation
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Portrait of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal (2019)

Whereas climate change, pollution, and environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices (referred to in this preamble as “systemic injustices”) by disproportionately affecting indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this preamble as “frontline and vulnerable communities”)
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