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    Job Corps is a program administered by the United States Department of Labor that offers free education and vocational training to young people ages 16...
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  • to a juvenile facility for a year, where she became interested in the Job Corps, a government program aimed at helping low-income youth by offering vocational...
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    Foundation received notice from one of its members that the nearby Anaconda Job Corps was involved in building a chapel at the statue site in Butte. Objecting...
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    night race in 1965 there were 35 Job Corps men and youths invited as special guests for that night‘s race. The Job Corps members were siting in the back...
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  • participants can go in their local area to get both job training and referrals. National programs such as jobs corps, Native American, migrant, and veterans programs...
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  • demonstrated effectiveness for Job Corps center operation. Authorizes the Secretary to accept charitable donations on behalf of the Job Corps. Directs the Secretary...
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    Red Rock Job Corps Center is a Job Corps training center in Colley Township, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, USA. Like all Job Corps centers, it provides...
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  • the Cleveland Job Corps trained female high school dropouts aged 16 to 21 with job and educational skills. In 1976, the Cleveland Job Corps began accepting...
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    Sargent Shriver (category Peace Corps directors)
    Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, and other programs as the...
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  • 2000 census. It is named for the Breckinridge Job Corps Center, now known as the Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center. Breckinridge Center was formerly home...
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    employment, and healthcare. The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 created a Job Corps and Volunteers in Service to America; the Food Stamp Act of 1964 provided...
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    significance, plus the second oldest Job Corps facility (Tongue Point Job Corps) in the nation. Tongue Point Job Corps center is the only such location in...
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    and get quality, long-term jobs or further their education. Job Corps continues to help 70,000 youths annually at 122 Job Corps centers throughout the country...
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    occupied by the United States Department of Labor Job Corps (not part of the redevelopment). The Job Corps moved in and took over 40 acres (16 ha) and 13...
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    re-opened in 1965 as the "Breckinridge Job Corps Center". The name was later changed to the "Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center" in 1980, to honor Earle C...
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  • was an American educator and community leader, founder and director of Job Corps for Women, a program of the United States Department of Labor. Bennetta...
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    Senior High School, Marion Northwood High School, Saltville Blue Ridge Job Corps, Marion Chilhowie Marion Saltville (partly in Washington County) Adwolfe...
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  • adult, Foreman barely evades arrest for mugging and decides to join the Job Corps as a last-ditch effort to turn his life around. There, he befriends his...
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  • of the cantonment became a Job Corps center in 1965, supervised by the U.S. Forest Service. After nine years, the Job Corps center was transferred to the...
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    San Marcos Airport, while another part was reopened in 1966 as the Gary Job Corps Center. In the 1960s, with the establishment of Aquarena Springs and Wonder...
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    Training Grants Indian and Native American Job Training Program Job Corps Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Job Training Program National Emergency Grants...
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  • or MTC is a contractor that manages private prisons and United States Job Corps centers, based in Centerville, Utah. MTC's core businesses are corrections...
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    convinced his mother to sign him up for Job Corps after seeing an ad for the Corps on TV. As part of Job Corps, Foreman earned his GED and trained to become...
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    created the Job Corps and AmeriCorps VISTA, a domestic version of the Peace Corps. Modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Job Corps was a residential...
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    located just west of the west border of Hill Air Force Base. The Clearfield Job Corps Center was established in 1966. This facility is located west of the Freeport...
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    Citizens, Youth Education and recreation training as well as the L.A. Job Corps program. Founded in 1894, the YWCA Greater Los Angeles serving the needs...
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    Marine Corps aviation falls under the influence of the Deputy Commandant for Aviation, whose job is to advise the Commandant of the Marine Corps in all...
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    District 202 Since the early 1980s, the Job Corps of the U.S. Department of Labor has operated the Joliet Job Corps Center on the campus of the former Joliet...
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    introduced a resolution calling for President Nixon to halt closing 59 Job Corps Centers. He amended the original resolution to include a June 30 deadline...
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  • Olympics. He returned to El Paso in 1969 to start a Job Corps program there. The El Paso Job Corps opened under Carrasco's leadership in September 1970...
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