National-Service Effort Receives $441-Million

Washington

President Bush has signed into law a massive spending bill for the 2004 fiscal year that includes $441-million for the AmeriCorps national-service program -- a 62-percent increase in support, the largest in AmeriCorps's 11-year history. The measure covers spending in the fiscal year that began October 1.

The money will allow the Corporation for National and Community Service, the agency that runs AmeriCorps, to finance 75,000

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