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Crews complete construction of the solar panel structure at a solar panel farm in Newland, North Carolina. (Bob Leverone/AP Images)

The Green New Deal as Economic Development

It can create millions of jobs. It can compensate old-economy workers who lose theirs. It can rebuild America.

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