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§3191 Purposes

Title 29 › Chapter 32— WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY › Subchapter I— WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES › Part C— Job Corps › § 3191

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Maintain a national Job Corps program run with States and local communities. It must help eligible young people get into the workforce by giving them strong social support, school classes, career and technical training, and service‑learning—mostly in residential centers—so they can earn a high school diploma or a recognized postsecondary credential. That goal is to lead to good jobs in high‑demand fields or the Armed Forces with economic self‑sufficiency and advancement, or to further education like college or an apprenticeship, and to encourage responsible citizenship. It must also set rules for picking enrollees, allow the creation of Job Corps centers to run these intensive programs, and define other powers and duties needed to run and improve the program.

Full Legal Text

Title 29, §3191

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The purposes of this part 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 part; and
(4)to prescribe various other powers, duties, and responsibilities incident to the operation and continuing development of the Job Corps.

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Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first full program year after
July 22, 2014 (
July 1, 2015), see section 506 of Pub. L. 113–128, set out as a note under section 3101 of this title.

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Citation

29 U.S.C. § 3191

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Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60