The Peace Corps is offering staff a second “fork in the road” buyout, according to a source familiar with the matter. Allison Greene, the chief executive of Peace Corps, sent an email to staff on Monday with an update about the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) assessment of the agency.
Greene said to expect “significant restructuring efforts” at Peace Corps headquarters, according to the email seen by the Guardian. Starting on 28 April and going through 6 May, direct hire and expert staff are being offered a second deferred resignation program, what Elon Musk’s Doge has referred to as a “fork in the road” buyout. Greene referred to this offer as “DRP 2.0”.
Eligible staff will hear from human resources and “are strongly encouraged to consider this option”, Greene wrote. The offer applies to employees both domestically and overseas.
Take it take another little peace of my corps now…
The benefits the Peace Corps provides the US is a hundred-fold its meager costs. Cutting this program is grotesquely short-sighted.
Indeed. Building wells or installing basic solar panels in remote villages builds goodwill and gets youngsters to see parts of the world they might not.
But perhaps that second point, and its corresponding appreciation for the services we have in the US which are things the rich want to obliterate.
My experience traveling has been the opposite—I’ve been noticing how the perception of modernity in America functions as a control and fear inducing mechanism to keep people from seriously questioning capitalism.
I have spent a lot of time in Mexico, and I personally believe they have their priorities better aligned to give people an existence with some level of dignity. It may not look like American suburbia, but you can take up a cottage industry easily if you are poor, get healthcare more easily if you are sick, and socialization is affordable. Where America nickel and dimes every necessary expense to live, Mexico does a better job of keeping those costs down and taxing luxuries instead.
I’m not saying Mexico is perfect—no country is—but the “shithole country” rhetoric that Trump espouses contributes to an impression that our way is indisputably the best way, and that is simply not true.
The idea that most other countries are either extremely strange or extremely poverty-stricken is definitely a very intentional form of propaganda we get fed in the US. People are shocked when I tell them they can get cheaper, safer, better medical care in Mexico pretty often. Mostly for cosmetic surgeries, but they act like all hospitals in Mexico are run down death factories.
MAGAts hate peace so that is no surprise.
We should never allow MAGA a single moment’s peace then.
They are opposed to the idea of ‘soft power’ as they think it sounds effeminate.
