* In Delaware, AmeriCorps members are recruiting women for the Women, Infants and Children welfare program and even driving them to welfare offices.
* In Virginia Beach, recruits helped the city double the size of an outreach program that signs people up for housing subsidies.
* The Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE) program, which has been on the AmeriCorps gravy train since 1994, promised in its 1999 grant application that AmeriCorps members would "conduct door-to-door canvassing to identify potential food stamp recipients" and also provide "assistance...in completing necessary applications for food stamps."
I wonder when these "opportunities" will become mandatory?