"Earlier this year, Gov. M. Jodi Rell attempted to revive the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps when she designated $7.5 million in her budget proposal for a project called the Connecticut Conservation Corps.
Like its 1930s ancestor, the CCC would hire unemployed people to work in Connecticut's state parks, cleaning beaches and clearing hiking trails, Rell said.
"My father used to say that he went into the CCC a boy and came out a man," said Rell in March. Her father joined the CCC in the 1930s.
"What I really want to do is create an opportunity for young people to work and support their families the way my father did, by spending their days performing good, honest labor that will benefit the state," she said. "
JULIE STAGIS, SOME 'GOOD, HONEST LABOR' :GOVERNOR LOOKS TO GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE A CHANCE TO LEARN WORK SKILLS; CONNECTICUT CONSERVATION CORPS. Hartford Courant August 14, 2009
