Why does AmeriCorp still exist?
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It takes an exceptional set of circumstances to get rid of any government program.
We’d still have the WPA if it wasn’t for the inconvenient breaking out of WWII.
“Job Corps was initiated as the central program of the Johnson Administration's War on Poverty, part of his domestic agenda known as the Great Society. Sargent Shriver, the first Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, modeled the program on the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Established in the 1930s as an emergency relief program, the CCC provided room, board, and employment to thousands of unemployed young people. Though the CCC was discontinued after World War II, Job Corps built on many of its methods and strategies.”