{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://tokuda.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-tokuda-condemns-decision-to-pause-job-corps-operations", "Rep. Tokuda Condemns Decision to Pause Job Corps Operations", "2025-05-29", "2025", "2025-05", "Democrat", "House", "HI", "Jill N. Tokuda", "T000487", "tokuda.house.gov", "tokuda", "https://tokuda.house.gov/media/press-releases?PageNum_rs=3&", "scraper", "Nationally recognized locations in Hawai\u02bbi will be affected\n\nWashington, DC -- Today, U.S. Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) announced plans to pause operations at all contractor-run Job Corps centers nationwide, including Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s nationally recognized programs on Maui and O\u02bbahu.\n\n\"I am outraged by the Department of Labor\u2019s reckless decision to halt operations at Job Corps centers, a lifeline for young people in Hawai\u02bbi and across the country. This isn\u2019t budget management; it\u2019s a betrayal. Job Corps works. It gives vulnerable youth the tools to build stable futures and creates economic opportunities in our communities. Shutting it down abandons them and undermines everything we claim to stand for.\n\nWhen Maui was in crisis, it was Job Corps students who showed up \u2014 delivering aid, offering comfort, standing strong for their neighbors. That\u2019s not just a program. That\u2019s resilience in action.\n\nWe should be investing more in Job Corps, not gutting it. I will fight this shortsighted move and focus on increasing our support because our youth deserve opportunity, not abandonment.\"\n\nHawai\u02bbi\u2019s two Job Corps campuses on Maui and O\u02bbahu, ranked second out of 125 locations nationwide, provide hands-on career training in high-demand fields. In 2024, 112 Hawai\u02bbi students launched careers through the program. Over 80 percent of Hawai\u02bbi graduates are employed, enrolled in college, or plan on serving in the military within six months \u2014 earning an average wage of $17.87 per hour, well above the state and federal minimum wage.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T00:49:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://tokuda.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-tokuda-condemns-decision-to-pause-job-corps-operations"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7755900733172894, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}