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What would you do with 7 Million volunteers?

I was reading through reports about Chrysler and GM. I also ran across this article:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Initia...-15368339.html

It says that the new unemployment claims are slowing down. Good sign for the economy. It also got me thinking. There are almost 7 million people un-employed. If you could get them to do 1 hour of something productive a week, that would be around 350 Million man-hours. Using a 2000 hour/work week, that would equate to a 175,000 employee company working full time (bigger than the american workforce for GM and Chrysler combined).

What could we get them to do? In FIRST we often struggle with keeping our students emplyed with meaningful work towards the end of build season (not so much this year). I have a few ideas that I will post up after I get a few replies.

Please be respectful. I know that not every unemployed person wants to work, but that also goes the other way too. About 600K people file new claims each month which means they were working the month before. If you want to throw out an estimate of what percentage you feel you could motivate, that is fine, but save the derogitory remarks for someplace else.
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