Romano Mazzoli: “I am proud to note that tomorrow, here in Washington, DC, an organization from my hometown and my congressional…”

“I am proud to note that tomorrow, here in Washington, DC, an organization from my hometown and my congressional district, Job Links, is being honored by the U.S. Department of Labor and its secretary, Secretary Robert Reich, for having implemented programs at the local level to retrain people to give them new job skills in order to take them off the unemployment rolls and put them on the employment rolls. Job Links is a consortium run by the Jefferson County Public Schools, the Kentucky Department of Employment Services and the Kentucky Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. Over the years, Mr. Speaker, Job Links has placed many people in settings in which they can work and learn and earn. Mr. Speaker, I think that Secretary Reich, when he came to Louisville on January 14 to tour the Job Links Program with our mayor, Mayor Abramson, and our county judge, Judge Armstrong, saw firsthand what can be done at the local level. So, I commend Pam Anderson, the executive director of Job Links, I commend all of her associates at Job Links, for the work they are doing, and I say that this is the wave of the future. Job Links is part of welfare reform. It is part of lifetime learning. It is part of schools-to-jobs. It is getting people off of welfare and on to the work rolls, and Job Links is playing an important part in that story.”