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Mayor urges residents to contact lawmakers after White House budget proposal would cut Job Corps funding
Summary
Riverton’s mayor warned the council that the president’s budget proposal would eliminate Job Corps funding and asked residents to contact Wyoming’s congressional delegation; he cited local Job Corps placement and wage statistics.
Mayor Tim Hancock addressed the Riverton City Council on May 20 to raise alarm about the president’s proposed federal budget, which he said would eliminate funding for the Job Corps program.
Hancock said Wind River Job Corps has become “an incredible part of the community” and urged residents to contact Representative Harriet Hageman and Senators Cynthia Lummis and John Barrasso to advocate for continued funding. The mayor pointed to program performance figures he said applied to March 2025: 75.4% of Job Corps graduates were placed into jobs that matched their training and the average starting wage for Job Corps completers was $19.30 per hour. For pre-apprenticeship carpentry graduates he cited an average starting wage of $21.57 per hour and said many graduates enter registered apprenticeship programs.
The mayor framed the potential loss as a risk to local training and workforce pipelines, particularly for technical fields where Job Corps provides training opportunities that local colleges and employers might not otherwise offer. He encouraged citizens to make their views known to members of Congress and described the program as having a tangible local economic benefit.
No formal city action was taken on the matter at the May 20 meeting; the mayor’s remarks were a call to public advocacy.
