John Bridgeland and Alan Khazei have a cost effective, bipartisan approach for creating jobs and making the stimulus work: fully funding the budget requested in the Serve America Act. In a recent op-ed in Politico, they urge lawmakers to consider the benefit of increased funding for national service initiatives:

Fully funding the president’s budget request for the Serve America Act is high-impact, fast-acting stimulus, and it is a sensible measure that will put tens of thousands of Americans into service, meeting pressing needs that are only growing during these challenging times.

We couldn’t agree more!

Read the rest of their op-ed here.