Live from Washington, D.C. This is Social Distance, Politics Edition. I'm your host, Stephen Joffrey Williams Thomas. With me as always is Catherine.

Yes, Jim.

Or whatever, Stephen. The reason that Jim made this joke is because what's going on in Congress is they're

debating this relief bill, the extension of the Cares Act.

And we've talked about the $600 benefit.

You know, we're watching what's gonna happen.

One thing I read is that part of what's being proposed by Delaware Senator Chris Coons is something called

the Core Act. It's an expansion of national service programs like AmeriCorps, just like you've been saying the whole time.

So we can build parks, create more outdoor space, put people to work in outdoor spaces, and it's winwin when and we you know we don't have

crowded parks and we have places people can go and live pandemic lives in the

third way. You've been talking about this for months and someone's actually

doing it. That's like someone with power you know. Jim just give a little

refresher for people who haven't been listening to everything you're sort of fixated in almost a strange way with the civilian

conservation court. Well I have a CCC sweatshirt. It's like a little bit

weird yeah. Yeah so for people who want to I have a CCC sweatshirt. It's like a little bit weird.

Yeah.

Yeah. So for people who want to know more about the civilian conservation

core, go back to the top of this podcast

and just listen to them all. We have talked about it a couple of times.

It was part of the New Deal.

It existed in the US from 1933 to 1942

and was one of the programs that took people who were out of work and essentially allowed

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