{"id":5629,"date":"2009-02-16T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2009-02-16T20:14:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:14:30","slug":"national-service-in-the-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5629","title":{"rendered":"national service in the stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final stimulus bill that the president will sign on Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewservice.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/15\/national-service-in-the-stimulus-package\/\">includes <\/a>$201 million for AmeriCorps, an increase of roughly one fourth. I don&#8217;t know whether positions in AmeriCorps programs count as &#8220;jobs&#8221; and will thus help the president to meet his target of four million jobs created or preserved. At $10,900 for a year&#8217;s work, the AmeriCorps stipend is low&#8211;as pay. But I would justify putting this item in the stimulus because thousands of young people are missing the educational advantages of work now that the youth unemployment rate is above 21%. AmeriCorps programs provide generally good experiential education in the form of work-like positions that are challenging and inspiring. They can thereby partially compensate for a lack of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Sagawa and others are <a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/news\/government\/7079\/americorps-expansion-should-consider-quality-not-number-of-participants\">correct <\/a>that the best measure of AmeriCorps is quality, not quantity. It matters how much participants learn and achieve, not only how many people participate. But I think the quality is high enough today that the $201 million will be well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final stimulus bill that the president will sign on Tuesday includes $201 million for AmeriCorps, an increase of roughly one fourth. I don&#8217;t know whether positions in AmeriCorps programs count as &#8220;jobs&#8221; and will thus help the president to meet his target of four million jobs created or preserved. At $10,900 for a year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}