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On the recordApril 3, 1995
I had a wonderful experience visiting an AmeriCorps Program in Los Angeles. I want to tell my friend that the Americorps volunteer--and by the way, our Republican friends say: They are not volunteers. They get a stipend. They get money for their education. They are not volunteers. Well, I say to my friend, could these people do this work without a stipend? Could they live? Could they give of themselves and back to community if they did not have the stipend? Did not the people in the Peace Corps, I say to my friend, have a way to live while they gave their service?
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Discussing the role and support of AmeriCorps volunteers.

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