By County10.com (Riverton, Wyo.) – The economic impact of the construction and opening of the Wind River Job Corps Center in Riverton is expected to create a big boost to the Fremont County economy. The Principal Economist for the State of Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division, Wenlin Liu, said the project in 2015 alone is expected to add 465 jobs in…
The U.S. Department of Labor has signed a five-year, $41 million deal with a Utah company to operate the new Wind River Job Corps center here.
The deal represents the culmination of a decade-long push to build a Job Corps center in Wyoming, the only state in the nation to lack such a facility. The center will provide education and job training to disadvantaged youth from Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain region.