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Article: More national service, not less.(The Missing Issues)(Cover Story)
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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No presidential candidate can deny that America is overwhelmed by social troubles like crime, race, drugs, AIDS, unemployment, failing families, and failing schools. So it's amazing that as the campaign unfolds, the most promising idea for tackling these troubles, domestic national service, is getting virtually no attention.
Contrary to the shallow stereotypes served up by conservative critics, domestic national service needn't be glazed-eyed do-gooders sitting around a campfire singing "Kumbaya." It could be putting the vast unused talents and energies of our citizens, especially those between age 15 and 30, to work systematically on our country's most pressing ...