I asked them not to abolish AmeriCorps, as they had threatened to do.
我要求他们不要取消美国服务队,因为他们曾经威胁过要这么做。
About 50,000 people are enrolled in AmeriCorps, which carries out vital work in education, the environment, and homeland security.
现在约有50,000人加入了美国团,开展教育、环境以及国土安全等重大事宜。
On my previous trip to Cleveland, I had visited an elementary school where AmeriCorps volunteers were tutoring young children in reading.
上次来克利夫兰时,我视查了一所小学,美国服务队的志愿者们正在辅导孩子们读书。
That morning I had signed the bill creating AmeriCorps, the national service program; it was one of my most important personal priorities.
那天上午我已经签署了成立美国服务队的法案——也就是一项国民服务计划;这是我个人最优先重视的事情之一。
As a newlywed, she gave up corporate law and took a huge pay cut to open the Chicago office of Public Allies, part of former President Clinton's AmeriCorps.
结婚不久,她放下之前从事的公司法业务,转而开办了收入大不如前的芝加哥公众联盟办公室,这个办公室是美国义工团的一部分。
Over the next five years, nearly 200, 000 young Americans would join the ranks of AmeriCorps, a larger number than had served in the entire forty-year history of the Peace Corps.
在接下来的五年里,有近20万名年轻的美国人加入到美国服务队里,这个数字比和平队成立40年来吸收的所有成员还要多。
They want far more severe cuts to Pell Grants and home heating assistance, plus reductions to such essential services as food inspections and the elimination of programs like Americorps.
共和党人会在佩尔助学金和家庭取暖补贴上进行更严苛的削减,再加上削减一些生活必须的服务比如食品安检、削减美国志愿队。
They want far more severe cuts to Pell Grants and home heating assistance, plus reductions to such essential services as food inspections and the elimination of programs like Americorps.
共和党人会在佩尔助学金和家庭取暖补贴上进行更严苛的削减,再加上削减一些生活必须的服务比如食品安检、削减美国志愿队。
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