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AmeriCorps cuts leave people who serve and community organizations scrambling for alternatives

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Last month , President Trump gutted AmeriCorps , a 30-year-old federal agency that dispatches 200,000 volunteers and hundreds of millions of dollars .

The far-reaching government cuts have left communities across the country scrambling for alternatives.

The agency employs more than 500 full-time federal workers, most of whom are now on administrative leave.

The White House says it has the legal right to restore accountability to the Executive Branch .

Public funding through AmeriCorps has always been coupled with private dollars, Jeansonne says.

But it is a symbiotic relationship with one requiring the presence of the other to subsist.

Most funding decisions are made locally by state service commissions like the one he runs in Louisiana .