[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 59 (Wednesday, April 22, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2351]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       JOB CORPS 50TH ANNIVERSARY

 Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I would like to recognize the 
Job Corps program, which trains our Nation's young people to see and 
create a viable future. This year, they celebrate their 50th 
anniversary. In my State, Alaska, our Job Corps Center is now 20 years 
old. In that time, it has graduated over 5,000 students. At any of 
Alaska's hospitals, businesses, government offices, native 
corporations, contractors, electrical or telecom companies, nursing 
facilities, accounting firms, banks, water plants, and prestigious 
restaurants, you will always find successfully employed Alaska Job 
Corps graduates. These former students are now taxpayers and so proud 
of their achievements. I stand with them, as their proud Senator. These 
alumni look favorably upon their time at Alaska's Job Corps Center as a 
time that made an enormous difference in their lives; oftentimes the 
difference between safety and danger, success and failure, and wealth 
and poverty. This program works. It has a heart that never stops 
beating the supportive drumbeat of success and training for our young 
people.

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