Wait til he hears about the Peace Corps!
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
Peace Corps tends to be around 10k people. Americorps is 75k. She wants a reserve of 5 million.
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If the reserve runs on 1-year terms, it needs 5 million new recruits a year. There are about 5.2 million 18 year olds.
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Possibility #1: HRC proposes an overly-ambitious ambitious volunteer program, can't find enough people to staff it.
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a lot of countries which aren't fascist still have mandatory civil/military service (Austria, Finland)
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I think it's more likely she will make most federal student financial aid conditional on doing civilian service
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while at the same time using the fact it's now "earned" as a political argument to make said aid more generous
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Seems plausible. But similar deals haven't made Americorps appealing to more than 100k-150k, it looks like.
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