President Obama Promotes Year Up as a Successful Program

On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, President Barack Obama with a visit to our National Capital Region site spoke about the Year Up in a Press conference. "I went to a program here locally in Washington called Year Up, which has a proven track record of taking young, mostly minority people, some of whom have graduated from high school, some maybe who've just gotten their GED, and trained them on computers and provide them other technical skills, but also train them on how to carry themselves in an office, how to write an e-mail -- some of the social skills that will allow them to be more employable."
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