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Article: Achieving their potential.(Civilian Conservation Corps)
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- Reclaiming Children and Youth
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- March 22, 2009
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Seventy-five years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt took two crises--a decayed environment and wide unemployment--and combined them to form a single success: the Civilian Conservation Corps. In the CCC three million young unemployed men dramatically improved the nation's infrastructure The CCC gave young Americans living in poverty hope. Today's Corps give young men and women the chance to change their communities and their own lives.
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