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This service act seeks to encourage those who are deterred by recent financial setbacks to nevertheless consider national service opportunities such as Teach for America and the Peace Corps. It will increase the amount of money provided to students by raising the value of the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award—created to allow those pursuing service opportunities to simultaneously pay off their college loans—from $4,775 to $5,350 per year...
...wake of the recent economic downturn, Scott said this act will support AmeriCorps’ focus on five pressing issues—educational achievement, health care access, clean energy, support of veterans, and economic opportunities...
...addition to the authorization of the new act, AmeriCorps has already received approximately $200 million as part of President Obama’s stimulus package, which have been used to recruit up to 13,000 new positions...
With the number of applications to AmeriCorps’ state and national programs increasing roughly 8 percent from 2007 to 2008, this expansionary act comes at a time when more and more graduates are seeking to partake in national service...
...that focused on sex-related issues, including True Love Revolution, H-Bomb, and Harvard Men Against Rape. The panel attracted about 40 prospective students, filling a packed Sever Hall classroom. “We promote a positive philosophy about sex where we find great meaning and beauty in the act of sex,” said Leo J. Keliher ’10, president of True Love Revolution, the student advocacy group that promotes premarital abstinence. Keliher was seated next to Brandon T. Perkovich ’11, the president of H-Bomb, Harvard’s student...