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Following President John F. Kennedy’s ideas, many people were inspired to join the Peace Corps, which should be honored.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Harry Belafonte to serve as a “Cultural Advisor” to a new federal agency: the Peace Corps. A half-century later, an interviewer asked Belafonte why he ...

Just two months into his presidency in 1961, Kennedy signed an executive order to form the Peace Corps on a trial basis. As the Cold War grew increasingly tense in the early 1960s, U.S. President ...

Less than six weeks later, JFK signed Executive Order 10924, which started the Peace Corps. By June, the first Peace Corps recruits began training for assignments in Colombia, Ghana and Tanganyika ...

We’re just three months into President Trump’s second term, and already the Peace Corps is on the chopping block. While he touts solutions of tariffs and “government efficiency,” he ...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed a law giving the Peace Corps permanent status. He hailed it as a way for Americans to work for world peace and understanding. In 1975, U.S. President ...

"Staff from the Department of Government Efficiency are currently working at Peace Corps headquarters and the agency is supporting their requests," the organization said in a statement on Friday.

These were the words we translated from the Ukrainian national anthem. We were young Peace Corps volunteers, new to Ukraine in fall 2005, and some of us didn’t yet understand the significance of ...

Peace Corps staffers have been warned about “significant restructuring efforts” following a review by the Department of Government Efficiency as the Trump Administration focuses on bringing ...