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Re:Obama (was) to require 100 hours of community service a y... by tesseract on Friday November 07, 2008 @08:34PM (#357334)
If (as other parts of the website seem to suggest) the policy is actually that you $4k tax credit if you choose to do the service, this isn't such a huge problem. If you have a job that pays more than $40/hr, don't quit it to do the service. If you don't have such a job, then figure out what your options for service are and decide whether $40/hr is sufficient motivation to get you to do them.
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Re:Obama (was) to require 100 hours of community service a y... by pg on Friday November 07, 2008 @08:37PM (#357337)
The stuff about the tax credit wasn't there till a couple minutes ago. That changes everything, of course. Then it becomes just one of those make-work projects like e.g. Boston organizes during the summer to keep unemployable teenagers busy till school starts again.
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Re:Obama (was) to require 100 hours of community service a y... by tesseract on Friday November 07, 2008 @08:44PM (#357348)
Tax credit info has been on a different page (http://change.gov/agenda/education/) for longer than that. It contradicted the info on the linked page and that contradiction was apparently resolved a few minutes ago.
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