DOGE Cuts Are Hitting Summer Programs for Kids

Afterschool and summer programs around the country may have to cut back hours or shut down due to massive cuts to volunteer programs like AmeriCorps, reports Kiplinger. 

In the wake of a lawsuit filed by two dozen states and the District of Columbia, a judge ordered the Trump administration to restore funding to AmeriCorps grants in those states. But the 26 states that did not participate in the lawsuit will feel the impact: 

America’s Service Commissions said that the funding rollback would terminate the jobs of 32,000 volunteers nationwide and force as many as 1,000 important programs to shut down.

One of the organizations impacted by the mass cuts was Flipside AmeriCorps, a Marion County-based community program that provided critical afterschool support and mentorship to middle school students in West Virginia.

“We have other grant funding available to keep the Flipside Afterschool program operational through the end of the school year,” the program shared in a release. “That’s not the case at many programs across the state or country.”