This week, the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee met to mark up their proposed FY25 spending bill. Overall, the bill allocates $198.4 billion for spending – a cut of $24.6 billion, or 11%,...
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Agency Releases Final AmeriCorps State and National Rule on Match Requirements, Education and Training Hours, and Term Limits
On May 28th, the AmeriCorps agency published the final AmeriCorps State and National rule designed to boost grant flexibility, reduce barriers to service, and expand access to workforce development opportunities for AmeriCorps members. The new regulations will go into effect...
Read More »Congressional Champions Urge Appropriators to Invest in AmeriCorps
This spring, a bipartisan group of nearly 140 members of Congress signed letters to the leaders of the Appropriations Committees urging them to invest in AmeriCorps in fiscal year (FY) 2025. The letters were led by the co-chairs of the...
Read More »Congress Passes Final FY24 Funding Package
This weekend, the House and Senate passed a $1.2 trillion FY24 “minibus” funding package, which included $1.26 billion for AmeriCorps. The package, which included the six appropriations bills – Labor-HHS, Defense, Financial Services, Homeland Security, Legislative Branch, and State and...
Read More »White House Releases FY25 Budget Request
While Congress is trying to bring the fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget process to a resolution, President Biden sent Congress his FY 2025 budget request. The Biden-Harris Administration is seeking $1.342 billion for AmeriCorps. This is a 2% increase ($29...
Read More »Congress Passes Third Stopgap Spending Measure
On January 18, in the face of a looming government shutdown, Congress passed a third continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded at fiscal year 2023 levels until early March 2024. Similar to November, the CR faced opposition from...
Read More »Congress Reintroduces AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act
This week, congressional champions in the House of Representatives and the Senate introduced H.R. 6759/S.3487, the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act. This bipartisan, bicameral bill seeks to make the AmeriCorps education award exempt from federal taxation. Senators Michael...
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