on the stipend i receive and paying for nutritious food has been a struggle, so i actually signed up for snap back in april of this year. and it s really just made a big difference in the amount of food i can afford, the diversity of food i can afford. so i m not just buying like, you know, instant ramen and peanut butter. it has really expanded my access to food and been important for me in this short period of time as i m serving through ameri corps. and you deserve to have nutrition in your life as everyone, really. joel, the new calculations mean, basically this is an increase of like $36 per person per month. this is going to begin october 1st. and really the amount will vary by state. what impact will this have? you just completed this tour where you ve been all across the country, seeing people who are hungry and in need of this. what impact will this increase have?
from paper to pearls how to turn waste paper into jewelry. in the eastern one city of a woman gonna pay for waste is a huge problem tons of paper are thrown away they re not recycled d.c. is ameri corps has esther wanted to tackle the problem. she dug used paper at the local high school where anything from old calendars to used writing paper can be found. burning paper harms the environment. so she decided to create something useful. there then turned into bracelets necklaces and earrings. it takes around five kilos of paper to make one hundred bracelets.
lessons in iraq and now it seems we re poised to do it all over again. the only way to avoid repeating history is if everyone has a little skin in the game. he was director of defense policy on president clinton s national security counsel. i think it is good to have everybody have a piece of skin in the game but it is not practical. it is not like vietnam when we trained our soldiers to be expert rifle shooters. now it can take up to a year to train young men and women on the sophisticated machinery they use. i believe in national service. where you can join ameri corps or the military. that is the way to have the skin in the game but i do believe that is why sometimes too many people are ready to go to war.
wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. we are the ones we ve been waiting for. we are the change that we seek. hard to argue with that sent. but not too hard to defund it. one of the programs that could once again be in jeopardy is the national service organization putting young people to work tackling the nation s toughest problems in exchange for small living stipend and scholarship. it promised to keep strong levels of funding for national service including ameri corps but that has become a favored gop target for budget slashing. irpically it comes as they celebrate a big milestone, 20 years this week, president clinton signed legislation creating the domestic equivalent