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What Green New Deal advocates can learn from the 2009 economic stimulus act

  • Written by Joseph Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Assembling capacitors for electric automobiles at SBE, Inc. in Barre, Vermont, July 16, 2010. SBE received a $9 million stimulus grant to build electric drive components.AP Photo/Toby Talbot

Congressional Democrats have introduced a “Green New Deal” proposal that calls for a 10-year national mobilization to curb climate change by...

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