In my view, Sunak’s plan positions young people as a problem.
This AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps team did trail maintenance and construction work in Pennsylvania in 2017.
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A scholar of national service programs points out that the government hasn’t spelled out what this one will cost, what its participants will earn or how it will operate.
Devotion: a BTS fan stands outside the barracks in which Jin is completing his military training.
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The climate emergency is in many ways the Vietnam of today’s young people. The 50th anniversary of the release of resisters to that conflict should give today’s decision-makers pause for thought.
National Service recruits in the RAF.
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A short history of the Ex-Services Human Rights Association of Australia: a group of brave returned servicemen and women who protested the Vietnam War.
Teenage recruits at the experimental Universal Military Training camp at Fort Knox in 1947.
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A commission looking at the future of service is set to makesits recommendations. It is hoping to make a year of service ‘a norm’ for all Americans. What does it mean to serve?
JFK shaking hands with one of the first Peace Corps volunteers in 1961.
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No matter how well-intentioned, volunteers who may be inexperienced can’t solve the entrenched and complex social problems low-income communities endure.
Teach For America teacher Sergio Santiago looks over an assignment with a student.
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