It drives me insane that we don't do something like that today. You don't even have to push the communism button to accomplish this, just create a program that says hey if you join we'll give you $75k/year to repair bridges and sort recyclables.
Americorps technically does the same thing but with nowhere near the funding or scale. It's basically a public trade school focused on marginalised 18-25 year-olds. If it were expanded out to all ages and gave similar 4-year degree options to the military, it'd be much better.
It drives me insane that we don't do something like that today. You don't even have to push the communism button to accomplish this, just create a program that says hey if you join we'll give you $75k/year to repair bridges and sort recyclables.
Americorps technically does the same thing but with nowhere near the funding or scale. It's basically a public trade school focused on marginalised 18-25 year-olds. If it were expanded out to all ages and gave similar 4-year degree options to the military, it'd be much better.
Americorps js the best we’ve got, and they do a lot of good work while minimizing labor costs
Americorps is the America's largest scab agency
I did a couple terms of Americorps. We were basically paraeducators, but without any sort of licensing or training and paid about 12k a year.
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