AmeriCorps members here and across the country have helped kids learn to read, started new neighborhood programs in the libraries, enabled schools to become community schools, helped tenants on and on and on. Unfortunately, The Trump administration placed 85% of AmeriCorps full-time workforce on administrative leave with the intention to terminate them later this spring. this spring. And so the New York State Attorney General, Tish James, along with 23 states, has sued to stop the administration from dismantling AmeriCorps. (21:01–21:19)
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Asserts that 85% of AmeriCorps' workforce was placed on leave with plans for termination.
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