By Michael Brown and Elisa Villanueva Beard - AmeriCorps helps communities, fosters future leaders and unites people in a time of distrust.
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Statement on the Omnibus Spending Bill for FY2017
The agreement between the House and Senate on a massive Fiscal Year 2017 omnibus spending package includes $1.03 billion for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that administers national service programs including AmeriCorps and Senior...
Read More »Roll Call: Why Congress Should Value, and Keep, AmeriCorps
The national service program efficiently lifts America’s most needy schoolchildren.
Read More »The Air Force Times: National Service Narrows Military-Civilian Divide
By Army Maj. Gen. Alan B. Salisbury (ret.) - Our nation today faces a growing military-civilian divide, both cultural and societal. Less than one-half of one percent of Americans currently serve in uniform, while the 99-plus percent realize the benefit...
Read More »Washington Post: Trump Shouldn’t Gut the Program that Helped Rescue my State
By Haley Barbour - I was Mississippi governor when Hurricane Katrina landed. National service was critical to serving the taxpayer.
Read More »The Hill: Why AmeriCorps Is A Program Conservatives Should Love
AmeriCorps, a domestic Peace Corps, is a federally funded program that provides modest living allowances and college aid to Americans who perform significant amounts of structured community service by responding to natural disasters, boosting education, bolstering public safety, fighting poverty,...
Read More »The Boston Globe: City Year Says Trump’s Proposed Cuts Would Devastate Popular School Programs
Trump is calling for the elimination of CNCS, including its signature AmeriCorps program, which provides more than $48 million in funding to City Year and a host of other programs in Massachusetts.
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