Extended Bibliography.

Lake, Ted.” Job Corps as of today”. Arizona Silver Belt, Arizona Silver Belt, Jan. 19th. 2011, E-Edition and Print., Jan. 30th. 2011.

David Rossenwasser and Jill Stephen. Writing Analytically. Place of Publication unknown: Cengage Learning, Jan 2008. Print and PDF.


Ted Lake states that currently the fully federally funded Job Corps program is working with over 100,000 students at 124 centers around the nation. Most of these centers are being operated by private companies. Only a few are operated by the governments. Those who wish to enroll in the program must meet its eligibility standards consisting of Age, income, and life style standards.

While most of the article is general information about the current state and enrollment of the Job Corps program, Mr. Lake also makes an odd connection. He states that the Utah –based Management and Training Corporation is the labor department’s most respected contractor who operates 20 centers based in various states, and also mentions that this same company operates around 20 private correctional prisons.

While applying a “Lens” to a reading one should look for what strikes the reader as “interesting or strange” another good option is to infer questions about the implicit meanings that the author of a piece has given. (Rossenwasser) Using these tools and ideas a question arises. Why mention correctional prisons being operated by the same company? Why would Mr. Lake make a correlation with Job Corps and prison? While on the surface this article is completely informational and somewhat dry reading. Yet that one spot peaks curiosity. How do people normally view the program Job Corps? Are these individuals who are criminals? What kind of negative associations do people in the community give to this program that isn’t being explicitly mentioned in the press? Research into other articles that explicitly linked prisoners and Job Corps has yielded surprisingly little. Yet equally surprising so has many positive out-looking articles. Whether or not the community of Idaho links Prison and Job Corps together is unknown. Yet the idea of looking into the communities honest viewpoint bears merit.