The AmeriCorps dropout rate is 6 percent. Yet, the Republicans in Congress have fought its appropriation every two years. However, this year Republicans like Colin Powell, Sens. John McCain, Chuck Grassley, Rick Santorum and Dan Coats are supporting it. Many think a community service program like this should be mandatory for American young people coming out of high school. And I believe it would solve a lot of our social problems.
Chad thinks so, too.
We need to know different people and different cultures from different parts of the nation. Incidentally, Chad is about to visit one of the young women who was on his team, and then she is going to come to Arkansas to visit him. She's from New York.