Nowadays, it’s less about doing good than pathways to jobs and restoring face-to-face connections that can help bridge the divide.
AmeriCorps
Posted inEducation
How AmeriCorps Kept Young Talent in Rural Communities
Trump’s cuts to the federal service program eliminated thousands of positions that provided career pathways in struggling small towns across America.
Posted inSeptember/October 2023
A Different Kind of College Ranking
America needs a new definition of higher education excellence, one that measures what colleges do for their country, instead of for themselves.
Posted inEducation
Unlike AmeriCorps, the California Service Plan Benefits Residents and the Undocumented
The state’s impressive CollegeCorps program aids postsecondary students in exchange for community service.
Posted inPolitics
AmeriCorps Must Embrace Workforce Development
The national service program was left out of the Inflation Reduction Act. Even without this funding, there’s a lot that can be done.
Posted inEducation
Want Free College? Look to West Virginia.
The Mountaineer State is the first in the nation to waive tuition for AmeriCorps members.
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
The Only Path to Real Unity
To bring Americans together, President Biden needs to combine his eloquent exhortations with concrete action—a massive expansion of civilian national service.
Posted inJuly/August 2019, Magazine
National Service Solves Everything
A simple plan to deliver free college and a federal jobs program while restoring faith in American government.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
The Man Who Defined National Service
Harris Wofford, the former Pennsylvania senator who helped create–and then save–AmeriCorps, has died at 92.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Make AmeriCorps Great Again
Supporting AmeriCorps would help the country and the president’s agenda.
