Suchergebnisse

The end of the military draft in 1973 did not sever the link between military service & the need for large-scale voluntary national youth service. The youth unemployment rolls increased as the number of eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in the military declined by over one million from 1969 to 1975, & as M enrollments in school & Coll fell due to the absence of the draft threat. Compulsory national service is ruled out here as unconstitutional & counterproductive. Recommended instead is a program of guaranteed service opportunities that would: (1) attract a broad spectrum & substantial number of young people, (2) offer opportunities for educational growth, (3) be integrated with community needs & resources, (4) accomplish useful work, & (5) pay the minimum wage. The means for accomplishing these objectives are described with special emphasis on the idea of useful work. Make-work simply teaches bad work habits. In addition to the value of the services performed by youthful participants, the nation would discharge its responsibility to future generations more fully by enabling young people to serve on the frontiers of human need. AA.