The Trump administration, under heavy pressure from Congress, will withdraw plans
to end a U.S. Forest Service program that trains underprivileged youth,
spokespersons for the Agriculture and Labor departments told POLITICO. The Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers, a program within the Job
Corps, trains low-income young people to to become first responders to
natural disasters, to work on rural infrastructure projects, and to
maintain national forests. The administration’s reversal on its
shuttering the centers comes after significant pushback from lawmakers
of both parties — including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — and
also from the union that represents USDA Forest Service employees...MORE
You will notice my headline is different from the POLITICO article and I believe is a more accurate description of the situation. I've had personal experience with this program which I wrote about here.
Nice try Perdue.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Republicans and a labor union work together to preserve wasteful Forest Service program
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