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Each year, the Corporation for National & Community Service engages more than 75,000 Americans in intensive service through the AmeriCorps program at nonprofits, schools, public agencies, and community and faith-based groups. Since the programs founding in 1994, more than 1 million AmeriCorps...

I’ve been trying to make a lot of changes in my life recently: I just lost 90 pounds; I’m working on moving up at my company, Amtrak, by going back to school to get my degree in Business Administration and Human Resources; I saved up to buy a reliable car; and now I am working to own my own home...

Owning a home is a positive financial investment, but did you know it can actively improve almost every aspect of your everyday life? We have the facts and the testimonies for you right here.

Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard, a porch, a grape arbor. Propertied black people spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests. Like frenzied, desperate birds, they over decorated everything...

On the South Side of Chicago, a single mother has just been evicted from her apartment. She works full time to support her family and has never been late on a rent check, but even so, she has been given 60 days to vacate. The whole apartment complex is being sold or renovated or demolished—she doesn...