Title 29 — Labor
Part C · Chapter 32 — Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
§ 3191. Purposes
Statutory text
The purposes of this part are—
to maintain a national Job Corps program, carried out in partnership with States and communities, to—
assist eligible youth to connect to the labor force by providing them with intensive social, academic, career and technical education, and service-learning opportunities, in primarily residential centers, in order for such youth to obtain secondary school diplomas or recognized postsecondary credentials leading to—
successful careers, in in-demand industry sectors or occupations or the Armed Forces, that will result in economic self-sufficiency and opportunities for advancement; or
enrollment in postsecondary education, including an apprenticeship program; and
support responsible citizenship;
to set forth standards and procedures for selecting individuals as enrollees in the Job Corps;
to authorize the establishment of Job Corps centers in which enrollees will participate in intensive programs of activities described in this part; and
to prescribe various other powers, duties, and responsibilities incident to the operation and continuing development of the Job Corps.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Pub. L. 113–128 title I § 141 · 128 Stat. 1425
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 3191
(Pub. L. 113–128, title I, § 141, July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1537.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 113–128, title I, § 141, July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1537.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 141. PURPOSES. The purposes of this subtitle are— (1) to maintain a national Job Corps program, carried out in partnership with States and communities, to— (A) assist eligible youth to connect to the labor force by providing them with intensive social, academic, career and technical education, and service-learning opportunities, in primarily residential centers, in order for such youth to obtain secondary school diplomas or recognized postsecondary credentials leading to— (i) successful careers, in in-demand industry sectors or occupations or the Armed Forces, that will result in economic self-sufficiency and opportunities for advancement; or (ii) enrollment in postsecondary education, including an apprenticeship program; and (B) support responsible citizenship; (2) to set forth standards and procedures for selecting individuals as enrollees in the Job Corps; (3) to authorize the establishment of Job Corps centers in which enrollees will participate in intensive programs of activities described in this subtitle; and (4) to prescribe various other powers, duties, and responsibilities incident to the operation and continuing development of the Job Corps.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on the first day of the first full program year after (), see section 506 of Pub. L. 113–128, set out as a note under section 3101 of this title.