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President Obama visits students of the Obama Youth Jobs Corps

The Obama Foundation. President Obama hugs Aaron Park, an Obama Youth Jobs Corps intern. Aaron Parker from the Hyde Park neighborhood is a recent graduate of Hyde Park Academy. Through the Obama Youth Jobs Corps program, he has been interning at the Obama Foundation with the People Team. In August, he plans to attend City Colleges of Chicago and study Information Technology.

President Obama surprised a group of students who were at the Chicago offices of the Obama Foundation for a meeting of the Obama Youth Jobs Corps, a year-long workforce readiness training and internship program for high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors on Chicago’s South Side.

President Obama listened to the students discuss their experiences with the internship program and spoke about the importance of job training programs to create opportunities for young people on the South Side.

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