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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2021

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J O I N T   R E S O L U T I O N

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $100,000 TO YEAR UP PROVIDENCE

     Introduced By: Senators Quezada, Cano, Goldin, Mack, Bell, Acosta, and Mendes

     Date Introduced: February 18, 2021

     Referred To: Senate Finance

     WHEREAS, Millions of young adults in the United States have talent and motivation but

lack opportunity. At the same time, many companies have opportunities but lack the talent they

need for more successful businesses. As a result five million jobs requiring postsecondary

education went unfilled in 2020 and millions of young adults found stable career pathways

unattainable; and

     WHEREAS, Year Up Providence seeks to close the opportunity divide by providing

urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their

potential through professional careers and higher education. Year Up Providence achieves this

mission through a high support, high expectation model that combines marketable job skills,

stipends, internships and college credits. Year Up Providence’s holistic approach focuses on

students’ professional and personal development in order to place urban young adults on a viable

path to economic self-sufficiency; and

     WHEREAS, Year Up Providence alone cannot create opportunity for the many

disconnected urban young adults without the financial contributions that support their program;

now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not

otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year 2021-2022, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars

($100,000) to Year Up Providence to implement its program to provide low-income urban young

adults with a combination of hands-on skills development, coursework eligible for college credit,

and corporate internships; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his

orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of said sum, or so much thereof as may be from

time required, upon receipt of properly authenticated vouchers.

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