AmeriCorps, today’s Depression-era CCC via CNN by Senior Political Analyst David Gergen and CEO and Co-Founder of City Year Michael Brown. (via cityyear)Unemployment is striking America’s young people even harder than adults. Among those ages 16-24, unemployment stands at 17.7%, nearly twice the national average. It is even worse for minority youth — 32.4% of young blacks and 19.3% of young Hispanics are unemployed. All told, nearly 3.7 million young people are looking for jobs.
The millennial generation is staring into the abyss of a decade lost, dreams shattered. Experts say the negative effects of long-term joblessness, low earnings and rusted skills could haunt this generation for the rest of their lives.
AmeriCorps is not a cure-all for that adversity, but it will give more hope, and research shows some impressive returns for the communities served by AmeriCorps, as well as for the members themselves. For a small living stipend and a scholarship after service is complete, AmeriCorps members meet pressing local and national needs. They invest in their country, and their country invests in them.
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SummerAcademy07132011Morning_elliothaney-2 on Flickr.
More than 800 staff and senior corps members perform PT (Physical Training) at Copley Field at NorthEastern University.
Photo: Elliot Haney | 2011
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Don’t cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Definitely gives me comfort as I head into my final days of service with CYSJ
