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In the Media

July 3, 2017

Modern Machine Shop Magazine: Skills Training Strengthens Shops, Communities

This monthly trade magazine for the metalworking industry features our work to lift people out of poverty.

June 23, 2017

Positively Chicago: Women Who Weld

Valerie Galvin bounced from job to job to job until she took up welding at Jane Addams Resource Corporation. Then the sparks flew.

February 16, 2017

Hal Baron, Adviser to Harold Washington, Dies at 86

Former JARC Board Member Hal Baron wasn't one to mince words when it came to his principles or his politics.

Hal Baron
February 8, 2017

JARC Board Member & Harold Washington Adviser Hal Baron

JARC Board Member Hal Baron was known as Mayor Harold Washington’s “idea man.” He passed away January 18.

June 30, 2016

Building Job Skills

With all the flying sparks, it’s easy to assume professional laborers are welding metal on a manufacturer’s shop floor. JARC is a vocational training center in Chicago’s Ravenswood Industrial Corridor.

March 15, 2016

JARC's Employer-Driven Training Programs Featured in Medill News Service

Guy Loudon, JARC's Excutive Director, said businesses are struggling to find qualified candidates for “middle-skilled” manufacturing positions, many of which give non-college graduates the opportunity to earn incomes well above the national average.

September 18, 2015

JARC and LISC Partnership Featured on The Balancing Act

Lifetime's The Balancing Act recently featured JARC and its partners LISC and the MetLife Foundation for their tireless work to promote financial empowerment.

May 1, 2015

Car Donation Helps JARC Graduate Move to Self-Sufficiency

JARC partner Women With Drive donates cars to low-income women to drive them out of welfare and down the road to self-sufficiency. Caress, a JARC graduate, received Women With Drive's first ever car donation, a 2010 Nissan Altima.

April 1, 2015

JARC Launching Job Training Program in Baltimore

JARC, with 30 years' experience in the field, will move into a former elementary school in the Park Heights neighborhood in Baltimore that was the site of a similar training program that closed last year. The center will offer programs in welding and running computerized machine tools, skills that are in demand now and expected to be in the future in advanced manufacturing, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said.

December 8, 2014

JARC Puts the Unemployed with Few Options Back to Work

With the support of Chicago Tribune Charities, a McCormick Foundation fund, JARC helps unemployed Chicagoans with obstacles to employment get back to work.

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