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Article: National service: is it worth government support? (Bill Clinton's plans for a national service program for youth)
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- September 1, 1993
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The administration's proposal for a national service program appears to be gaining widespread support in Congress and the public. In theory, President Clinton's program would enable community service to be provided primarily by future, current, or former students in post-secondary education who need financial support in order to attend college.
Critics of the Clinton plan, however, have raised concerns about several possible sticking points: 1) the potential federal bureaucracy that would be an offshoot of this program, 2) the potential for people to be displaced from the labor force in order to accommodate national service participants, 3) the potential shift ...