The US needed a Peace Corps in the ’60s — it still needs one today
We're just three months into President Trump’s second term, and already the Peace Corps is on the chopping block. While he touts solutions of tariffs and “government efficiency,” he shatters our alliances and our hard-won moral authority abroad.
By contrast, less than a month before winning his election in 1960, John F. Kennedy announced his vision for a “Peace Corps” at the University of Michigan. In the six and a half decades since, nearly 240,000 American volunteers have responded to Kennedy’s inspiring call, © The Hill
