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...fact, the poll did show that where there has been an uptick is in the most - kind of the local volunteering, right around your home with your local school...
...those are the kind of messages that I think that we have to continue to deliver to others so that they're reminded of what's possible even in times of trouble...
...Citizenship poll about service showed this, too, is that people feel like their neighbors are actually less involved in the community than they used to be; that people are hunkering down, as you say, they're looking out for their own. How do you make the argument in that kind of environment to people who are saying, like, hey, I've lost my job and you're telling me to volunteer? How does that work? Does it make it a lot more difficult? Mrs. Obama: As the President said, I think that these are challenging times...
...things that came up during this poll, and the story now is going to kind of reflect this idea, is that while volunteering is down, people have changed the way they are consuming. For example, in the past year, record numbers of people bought a green product. Record numbers of people bought a product from a company that shows social responsibility whose values they like...
This is really kind of a new thing. And the argument that I'm going to try to make is that this is a new kind of service, a new kind of civic engagement; that people are becoming kind of citizen consumers, and that is related to this idea of service. The President: Well, I think you especially see that in the next generation, even among our daughters. I remember Malia maybe three years ago - she was eight or seven - said, you've got to get a hybrid because this is polluting the air and killing polar bears...