Whatever Happened To The Green New Deal?

Whatever Happened To The Green New Deal?

By William L. Anderson, Mises Wire | April 24, 2025 Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, nonetheless it has energized …

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Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?

The Green New Deal was proposed in 2019 and became the legislative centerpiece of the Biden administration. Like the first New Deal, it has garnered favorable media coverage, legislative hype, unkept promises, and a dismal track record.

Whatever Happened To The Green New Deal? – altnews.org

Authored by William Anderson via The Mises Institute, Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria