Job Corps 50th Anniversary

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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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