It provides a more intensive professional development experience, more fully preparing students for both a senior-year internship and the workforce. Young people on the South Side of Chicago lack the same opportunities as their counterparts in more affluent areas of the city. A recent report found that jobs per community on the North Side range from 10, — 30, while no community further south than Hyde Park has more than 6, jobs.
Thirteen South Side communities have fewer than half that number of jobs. OYJC will start young people on a path toward economic success early — training them in essential job skills, giving them early exposure to professional workplaces, and helping them plan for lifelong economic self-sufficiency.
Urban Alliance piloted a program for high school juniors in Northern Virginia, but this program marks the first time we will be working with sophomores. Studies have shown that a cost-effective tool to combat youth disconnection is preventive programming. We rate this a Promise Kept, though we'll keep an eye out to see how it develops.
Department of the Interior, June 15, U. The Principles of the Truth-O-Meter. President Barack Obama signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act in April While that bill does not create a new "5-E" service corps, it does send more money to youth service, and expands formal service goals to include energy conservation and clean energy activities. The bill reauthorizes the Corporation for National and Community Service and its programs through It also adds language that the corporation's purpose will focus national service on "education, energy conservation, and improving the health status of and economic opportunity for economically disadvantaged individuals.
Congress fully funded Obama's appropriations request for the Corporation for National and Community Service by approving its budget on Dec. This is enough progress toward the goals of this promise for us to rate it In the Works. President Obama has only been in office for two months. Now we have HR The Bill was sponsored by Rep. The Bill was introduced to the floor of the House of Representatives where both Republicans and Democrats voted in favor. Next it goes to the Senate for a vote and then on to President Obama.
Key point:. Thanks, Mr. Emanuel, for helping us remember what it is to be an American. I guess I forgot, somewhere around the time that Pres.
It strikes me as a revolutionary willingness to listen to Americans, assuming he is indeed listening to Americans and not just changing the text. As if I needed any more reasons to dislike the guy…. I think that mandatory service is a good idea. This country was built on labor and I think it is a small price to pay to have to do some community service every year.
It would be nice if everyone would do it voluntarily but for it to be mandatory tells the truth that a good proportion of the nation is not doing community service and it is needed. I mean, the administration is not asking for that much with those amount of hours in a year. Also, they are not asking us to do something risky to our lives or well-being. They are just requiring that we do a little each year.
Is that too much to ask? Where did we ever delegate the authority to our President to tell us to perform community service, and even further, to mandate it? You may think that volunteering is a good idea as do I , but introducing the element of compulsion nullifies any virtue that volunteering once had. This issue is still being promoted , the latest effort being a bill to establish a committee that will explore how best to enslave both young and old alike.
Many people choose not to perform community service, but Obama does not respect that decision; rather, he believes that community service provides such great benefits to society that individual decisions not to participate have no legitimacy. One of the benefits of voluntary community service is the opportunity to willingly help others less fortunate or to promote a cause about which one feels so passionate that he offers his most valuable asset — his time.
In return, the volunteer can take great pride in knowing he has done something worthwhile. But can psychic benefit be achieved if the person is forced to assist others, or forced to select a cause to promote? Name Required. Email Required. What do history's most notorious despots have in common with many of the flag-waving, patriotic politicians of our day?
Both groups rise to power through the exploitation of fear, which has become a societal plague. There have been widespread casualties. We need an antidote. Feardom offers its readers a much-needed immunization. History abounds with examples of government officials making decisions, well-intentioned or otherwise, that harm others.
Unfortunately, these unintended consequences are never anticipated, and rarely considered once they occur. The oldest economic battle in history repeats itself in the fourth Tuttle Twins book. Ethan and Emily witness this battle firsthand as they help their food truck friends win public support to overturn the protectionist laws that shut them down.
The third installment in the Tuttle Twins series finds Ethan and Emily confronting a scary creature that somehow controls money and markets. Your children will learn about money, inflation, banking, and other important monetary concepts in an exciting story, beautifully illustrated. In their second adventure, Ethan and Emily Tuttle go on a field trip to a fun factory where they learn how something as simple as a pencil is in fact a miracle—and one that nobody knows how to make!
Your children will learn about the free market, why division of labor makes our lives better, and how spontaneous order is the key to human progress and happiness!
Help your children learn about the proper role of government with this engaging book full of detailed, colorful illustrations! Ethan and Emily Tuttle learn from their wise neighbor Fred about the law, what our rights are and why we have them, and how we should voluntarily help those in need! A fundamental aspect of the good news of the gospel is the message of liberty. As President Joseph F.
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