Lakes Region Conservation Corps

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Originally Posted by retired

If you are getting paid, you are not a true volunteer, even if it is disguised as a stipend for "living expenses". Perhaps the real volunteers will continue to do the work. It sounds like the real loss of jobs might be the bureaucrats in Washington

We've been saying volunteers. AmeriCorps is very careful to use the word "members". That makes sense. They give out $1.5B a year with 500 employees. In NH, that involved half a dozen sub groups that do the same services every year. I think one person per state could handle that, and s/he doesn't need a lot of DC overhead. Better to appoint somebody in each state and ask the individual states to supply a local office at low/no cost to the Feds.