During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt started the CCC to get Americans involved in public works projects and create jobs. It was an ambitious precursor to the service movement, and we’re wishing them a spectacular diamond jubilee!
Exposure to the CCC workers has impressed [Chris Litzau, head of the Milwaukee Community Service Corps,] with the durable benefits from the program, he said.
“From the worst of times, you have the greatest human spirit arise,” Litzau said. “People need an opportunity to start somewhere. We provide that step to those individuals to really start to shine.”
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