Rocky, Barker. "Job Corps Expands Curriculum into Green Jobs." voices.idahostatesman.com, 18 March 2010. Web. 6 Mar 2011. . Rocky Barker states in his article about the improvements that Job Corps is making to their program to keep it up to date and in sync with the work force and also with today’s economy. I wouldn’t take this as a credible source because even though it may be posted on The Idaho Statesman’s website it is still on a blog and has no links to show where the author got his information. If there was some resources he showed that he got his information from I feel like this would automatically become a reliable source. In the article, the author talks about how the Obama administration hopes to give the kids a hand up because the up coming jobs in this economy will be in a greener direction. I could use this in my paper if I was writing more on the training programs that Job Corps offers or also if I was writing about what type of job training does Job Corps offer and how it relates to the jobs that the students get after they have finished the Job Corps program.
"Job Corps: Links with Labor Market Improved but Vocational Training Performance Overstated." gov.us.fed.congress.gao.reports. Google Groups, 6 Nov. 1998. Web. 6 Mar 2011. . The author of this article talks about the success that Job Corps has stated they had with their program in the year1998. It then goes and talks about the questions they had when they looked into Job Corps, their method of reviewing the data, and the results they came up with. I would be skeptical with this websites credibility because it is on a Google Groups blog but it also has a letter to Christopher Shays who is in the House of Representatives and is also the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Due to the formality of the text and the reasons why it was posted all point to this being a reliable source. I think one way to improve the reliability is for the group to share the link that they got this article/information from. This source illuminates my essay topic because it gives me some statistics about the success that Job Corps actually has with its program as a whole.
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