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How to get more Americans to volunteer

  • Written by Rebecca Nesbit, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia
Volunteers assemble food to be distributed to low-income schoolchildren in Pittsburgh through a government-funded program.AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19th-century Frenchman fascinated by U.S. life, praised what he saw during his travels across the new nation as an unusual eagerness to volunteer.

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