Recognition and Budget Cuts
The CCC has received praise from the United Nations Environment Programme, earning the international organization's medal for leadership in engaging youth in environmental projects. The corps has also received awards from the U.S. Department of Energy. On a visit to Sacramento on October 4, 1988, President George H. W. Bush suggested that the CCC should be duplicated in other states.
In 1983 the CCC was profiled in Smithsonian Magazine with a multipage article and pictorial detailing the successes and daily life of corps members.
Despite high praise from federal and international institutions, since 1992, the California Department of Finance has continuously allotted less funding to the CCC, forcing the closure of numerous residential centers throughout the state.
Read more about this topic: California Conservation Corps
Famous quotes containing the words recognition, budget and/or cuts:
“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
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The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees;
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