How AmeriCorps Can Ease Youth Unemployment

by Meghan Oakley · 2009-11-30 13:06:00 UTC
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Turns out that AmeriCorps is building communities in more ways than one. For the past 16 years, AmeriCorps has been building the capacity of non-profit organizations to serve people in need. But now... AmeriCorps is a resource for people in need in a whole new way.

The Center for American Progress just published a policy paper that argues that National Service programs can and should be a part of the approach to stem high rates of youth unemployment.

AmeriCorps has the potential to give young people valuable career experience, while keeping them off the roles of the unemployed. This model is similar to that of the Civilian Conservation Corps that built national parks and put men to work in the 1930s.

Old idea, new spin.

Photo Attribution: guardian.co.uk

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