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On the recordJune 21, 2017
If not Job Corps, what, what do they end up doing because it's -- I've looked at like this, it is either pay me now or pay me later.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney questions the alternatives for youth if Job Corps programs are unavailable.

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