Exactly eight years ago Friday, *Obama pledged an additional $6 billion for AmeriCorps, the government's 23-year-old civil society program that provides much-needed work on a number of fronts from coast to coast.
The program, created in September 1993 and launched in 1994 under former President Bill Clinton, offers full- and part-time opportunities for young Americans to perform valued services in various U.S. communities that might otherwise go ignored by overworked federal agencies. Three months after his inauguration, Obama submitted the cash as an effort to grow AmeriCorps' workforce from 75,000 to 250,000 by 2019.
The program, which relies on federal funding and private donations, addresses a multitude of needs across the United States -- including at-risk school children, public lands and waterways -- and engages more than 80,000 workers every year. It is often referred to as a domestic Peace Corps.
April 21, 2009 at 4:57 PM - Among other things, the act provides $6 billion in funding through 2010 for service organizations and expands AmeriCorps slots from 75,000 this year to 250,000 within the next decade, Obama said.
Let's do the math 6Billion / 75000 workers for 12 months =$80000 per employee. What exactly are they doing for that kinda money?
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voats4goats ago
Certainly sounds noble
Lets go deeper
Let's do the math 6Billion / 75000 workers for 12 months =$80000 per employee. What exactly are they doing for that kinda money?
cattarhero ago
I'll tell you. They're training young people to be good leftist Democrats.
voats4goats ago
Could be payroll for AntiFa army ya never know.