[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 6 (Tuesday, February 1, 1994)]
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                 JOB LINKS: PUTTING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to note that tomorrow, here in 
Washington, DC, an organization from my hometown and my congressional 
district, Job Links, is being honored by the U.S. Department of Labor 
and its secretary, Secretary Robert Reich, for having implemented 
programs at the local level to retrain people to give them new job 
skills in order to take them off the unemployment rolls and put them on 
the employment rolls.
  Job Links is a consortium run by the Jefferson County Public Schools, 
the Kentucky Department of Employment Services and the Kentucky 
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. Over the years, Mr. Speaker, 
Job Links has placed many people in settings in which they can work and 
learn and earn.
  Mr. Speaker, I think that Secretary Reich, when he came to Louisville 
on January 14 to tour the Job Links Program with our mayor, Mayor 
Abramson, and our county judge, Judge Armstrong, saw firsthand what can 
be done at the local level.
  So, I commend Pam Anderson, the executive director of Job Links, I 
commend all of her associates at Job Links, for the work they are 
doing, and I say that this is the wave of the future. Job Links is part 
of welfare reform. It is part of lifetime learning. It is part of 
schools-to-jobs. It is getting people off of welfare and on to the work 
rolls, and Job Links is playing an important part in that story.

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