Thursday, January 09, 2014

American Eagle Outfitters Gives $1 Million To Interior's Civilian Conservation Corps

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced a $1 million public-private partnership with American Eagle Outfitters Inc. on Wednesday aimed at training and providing jobs on public lands to young people and veterans. It is the first funding commitment for American Eagle and also the first pledge toward Jewell’s target of raising $20 million from private partners by 2017 to support the Obama administrations’ “21st Century Conservation Service Corps.” Jewell, formerly president and chief executive officer of outdoor retail chain REI, used the backdrop of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington to pay homage to the Civilian Conservation Corps that President Roosevelt created over 80 years ago. She said, “What we’re doing today embodies the spirit of President Roosevelt’s CCC — coming together to put young people and veterans to work on our public lands, which will instill a lifelong conservation ethic that not only benefits them, but our public lands and our country.”...more

 80 years and still running and don't forget Congress keeps funding it each year.  This is also an example of "crony capitalism" between the outfitters industry and big government.  One of the beneficiaries of this program is the Student Conservation Association whose participants are "age 15 to young adults" and "high school and college students, or recent graduates interested in green careers" and whose mission is "to build the next generation of conservation leaders."  They buy clothing and equipment, they vote and you are helping to pay for it.

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