Annie Friesen is one of two employees at Bartlett Arboretum that were funded by the AmeriCorps program and now funding for AmeriCorps jobs has been cut. AmeriCorps is a volunteer stipend program that ...

Hundreds of AmeriCorps members in Iowa are scrambling for housing and jobs after the federal government abruptly terminated funding for the program on Monday. The cuts, stemming from a decision by the ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly ...

But the situation is far worse when you break it down into segments of the population. African-American unemployment is at least 15.4 percent — more than 60 percent higher than among white males.

When the order rescinding federal funding this year for AmeriCorps dropped on April 15, 568 people doing a wide array of service work stopped for at least 15 Iowa nonprofit, faith-based and community ...

The House of Representatives passed a $154-billion jobs bill on Wednesday that includes $200-million in fresh money for AmeriCorps, the national-service program. The money, provided in the Jobs for ...

KEARNEY - Students and community members are being recruited to fill AmeriCorps positions. The positions will require participants to do community research and work on disaster preparedness, ...

LANSING, MI – Allison McCurdy wanted to help local businesses. A recent Michigan State University graduate, the 21-year-old McCurdy sought out AmeriCorps, a 30-year-old federal agency for volunteer ...

Until last month, 25-year-old Theo Faucher was an AmeriCorps team leader. He and 10 others got a small stipend to build affordable homes in Virginia, remove hurricane debris in Florida, and repair ...