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Job Corps: Where Participants Are Recruited, Trained, and Placed in Jobs

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 17, 1996
Report No. HEHS-96-140
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Summary:

The Job Corps, a national employment training program run by the Labor Department, serves about 66,000 participants at 112 centers in 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. GAO found that the Job Corps has the capacity to serve 81 percent of program participants in their home states--52,000 of 64,000 participants from states with Job Corps centers could have been assigned to a center in their state of residence. About 59 percent of participants were assigned to centers in their home state; the remaining participants were sent to centers outside their home state and traveled an average of more than four times as far as they would have had they been assigned to the closest center in their state of residence. Regardless of where they were trained, however, about 83 percent of those participants who got jobs were employed in their home state.

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