While we are training people to recycle batteries, to build electric vehicle batteries, charging stations, robots, drones, etc. these technical colleges and corporations can also conduct the train-the-trainer. These trainers will be able to train people in their communities. The value to that is that if we run into a situation as we did with manufacturing in America, with a passage of NAFTA, the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, we may one day find that our manufacturers have decided to move to Asia or Africa or India, where they can reduce their costs and leave our communities behind. Meaning there will no longer offer jobs or training to people. With community in place training, people will have the ability to teach people and create jobs and businesses on a small scale, not only locally in their communities, but also help businesses to become national entities or be able to compete on the global plane. Another thing that we can do in order to ensure much of the money that is being generated with a just transition will be to ensure that community benefits agreements are put in place so that we don't just have facilities coming into communities and the states benefit, and the counties, and cities benefit from taxes.
Company having employees and producing products. Some individuals benefit because they have jobs. The community at large does not directly benefit. Community Benefit Agreements, can ensure that there are parks, health care centers, and other infrastructure buildings to benefit people in the communities ---which in turn will enhance the dynamics, the income, and the economics of a communities. benefits by The concept of a just transition is that as we move forward, we must be sure that we don't leave people behind. But if we look at the current trajectory of how the Infrastructure Reduction Act money is scheduled to be used, and how the Justice 40 money is just beginning to trickle towards communities, we realize that if we do not have a more aggressive and visionary approach that we will in fact, create a brand new set of divides between those who are wealthy, those who are middle class, and those who are poor just as we have done with the educational and digital divides. When we look at the decline of income in America, and the wealth that corporations and the 1% are gaining, there is more than enough to correct the decline of American households’ income and wealth.
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