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Arizona Republic: Service act will help unite country

Nov 26, 2008 Posted by Aaron Marquez

Nov. 23, 2008 12:00 AM

President-elect Barack Obama, the 111th Congress, our country and world face great challenges as we await Inauguration Day.

The economy, energy, climate-change and education inequity: these are just a few of the profound tasks that confront us. These challenges can only be solved with the sacrifice of every American working together - Democrats and Republicans. Nothing is more important than first uniting our country.

With Sen. John McCain's leadership, there's a piece of legislation the might lead the way to unity: The Serve America Act. Both McCain and Obama co-sponsored this bill during the midst of the heated presidential campaign.

The Serve America Act calls on 250,000 Americans each year to serve in civilian national service programs. That's an increase of 175,000 new AmeriCorps members. The new corps members would deploy to fight the high school drop-out crisis or to respond to disasters. National service gives ordinary citizens the opportunity to take extraordinary actions to fight against our country's great social challenges.

The clarion call of Sen. McCain's campaign was to "serve a cause greater than self." Now that the campaign is over I hope he remains a roaring voice in the Senate, calling on us to serve.

- Aaron J. Marquez, Chandler
The writer is co-founder of ServeNext.org and an AmeriCorps Alumnus.

Arizona Republic: Service act will help unite country

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user icon Reuben | Feb 26, 2009 | rated none by 0 others

Amazing

The Arizona Republic is a daily newspaper published in Phoenix, Arizona. Circulated throughout Arizona, it is the state's largest newspaper. Since 2000, it has been owned by the Gannett newspaper chain. It was ranked tenth in US daily newspapers by circulation in 2007.

user icon Reuben | Feb 26, 2009 | rated none by 0 others

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