In mid-November our Center Director, Ms. Cashanna Armstrong, visited Washington D.C. to meet with other Job Corps Directors from around the nation and to call on legislators. Job Corps’ role of developing employment pipelines in the St. Louis region is essential in this current environment of workforce shortages, a key discussion topic in the meeting rooms and on the hill. COVID continues to present challenges for Job Corps, yet Ms. Armstrong remains sanguine about how the St. Louis Job Corps continues to perform and how it will perform as we emerge from this pandemic.