Greenville County, SC

South Carolina’s JAG program - Jobs for America’s Graduates - was honored as a “2007-2008 Top State Organization for Multi-Year Programs”. Also, 6 individual career specialists from the 14 JAG-SC programs statewide were recognized at the 25th Annual National Training Seminar for Jobs for America’s Graduates.

Based on the program’s early success in 14 pilot programs throughout the state, a $150,000 JAG Growth Incentive Fund award, sponsored by Verizon, will allow the program to expand to 5 additional schools next year. The award will be matched with funding from the South Carolina Department of Education and contributions from the South Carolina Department of Commerce.

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I haven’t said anything about last week’s gay ads fiasco caused by SC’s tourism department, but when you couple that with the fact that:

1. our local governments are looking to demand all its business be conducted in English only,
2. that the confederate flag on the SC Statehouse is still up, and
3. that one of our own Senators is comparing Obama to Osama bin Laden,

you have to wonder: are we closing ourselves off to the rest of the world or what?

I mean, I know the Civil War started here in SC, but can’t we all just get along?

btw: CafePress has an Obama/Osama t-shirt too. Shame, shame guys. Anything for a buck…

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