April 26, 2002

National-Service Program Turns Critics Into Fans

By SARA HEBEL

AmeriCorps, once derided as a pet program of President Clinton, now enjoys GOP support

After almost a decade of scrambling for dear life, the AmeriCorps national-service program is finally finding its legs.

The turnaround for President Bill Clinton's signature program has been stunning. Almost annually, since its creation in 1993, Republican lawmakers put the program on the chopping block, threatening to eliminate it and providing minimal financing.

But in his State of the

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