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In 2021, the Biden–Harris administration created Public Health AmeriCorps, using American Rescue Plan Act funds, to address our communities’ public health needs while providing a pathway into public health careers. That legislation provided $400 million through Fiscal Year 2024, and those funds have not gone to waste: in the Spring of 2023, the program allocated more than 100 grants, totaling $90 million, to state and local agencies.
When then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton first spoke about the idea for a national service program that eventually became AmeriCorps, the premise was simple: the federal government would help young people pay down their college loans if they engaged in public service for a year. AmeriCorps represented a civic call to action to young people from all backgrounds to improve their communities and consider a career in public service.
When walking across campus I am often struck by how few people I see wearing Columbia swag. If you were to ask most students about school spirit, they would laugh. When many students graduate from Columbia, they see it as the place where they got their degree, rather than a place that they look back on fondly.
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