[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 21142-21143]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            RECOGNIZING THE JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION

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                           HON. MIKE QUIGLEY

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, September 8, 2009

  Mr. QUIGLEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor the 
outstanding impact that the Jane Addams Resource Corporation has had on 
the lives of Chicago's residents and the strength of its communities 
through their groundbreaking and exemplary job training and community 
building programs.
  First created in 1985 to stem the flow of manufacturing jobs out of 
the Ravenswood Industrial corridor, the work of the Jane Addams

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Resource Corporation has been met with enthusiasm and success. 
Providing a variety of Education and Human Development Programs, 
excellent skills training and support services to low-income and 
unemployed workers, and Business and Real Estate Programs, the JARC has 
helped to transform and revitalize Chicago's neighborhoods by 
strengthening the local economy and putting people back to work. The 
Corporation's extraordinary efforts have been recognized both 
regionally and nationally, and its programs have become a model for 
community and economic development throughout the United States.
  Over the past 24 years, JARC has emerged as an invaluable benefactor 
of communities and neighborhoods throughout the Chicagoland area. 
Recognizing that strong local communities are often a product of a 
vibrant local economy, the JARC has employed a dynamic approach to 
community development by providing high quality skills training to low-
income and unemployed workers, and at the same time building strong 
relationships with Chicago-area manufacturers to provide JARC graduates 
with well paying jobs. As a result, Chicago neighborhoods and 
businesses have been strengthened and low-wage earners and the 
unemployed have found self-sufficiency and hope.
  Madam Speaker, in the midst of economic turmoil and the worst 
recession since the 1930s, the Jane Addams Resource Center has been a 
beacon of hope and help for the people who need it most. In the last 
year alone, 1,191 low-wage workers received employer-based 
manufacturing skills training with a completion rate of 99%, 25 
previously unemployed individuals were trained and placed in full-time 
jobs with an average hourly wage of over $13.00, and in just the past 6 
weeks, 7 trainees were placed in jobs. In working to improve Chicago's 
neighborhoods and provide valuable training to low-wage workers and the 
unemployed, the JARC has emerged as a unifying and beneficial force in 
the Chicagoland area, and I thank them for their 24 years of 
exceptional service to Chicago's communities and citizens.

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