Read and comment on this excerpt from an article in the Boston Globe in which Senior White House aides said the new volunteer program will function as an umbrella agency, encompassing the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and a new branch, a kind of homeland security corps.
Our initial reaction - if true, it's been tried before with ACTION in the 1970's and it didn't work. Read and comment on the story at:
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New agency to encompass the Peace Corps
Bush is scheduled to travel throughout the Southeast today and tomorrow to promote his most significant new domestic policy proposal, the Freedom Corps.
Senior White House aides said the program will function as an umbrella agency, encompassing the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and a new branch, a kind of homeland security corps, consisting of retired doctors and emergency serice workers who can serve a local community in times of crisis.
Though funding increases will not be announced until today, advisers described the agency as a major addition to the federal government, headed by a senior assistant to the president.
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