Federal Infrastructure Initiatives

Job Corps Infrastructure Academies

This resource visualizes infrastructure investments within Job Corps recruitment areas across the country. Clicking on “more info” on the map’s website leads to additional instructions on how to access and interpret information.

Job Corps is the nation’s largest free, residential career training and education program for low-income young adults ages 16 through 24. By offering hands-on training in fields like manufacturing, health care, technology and construction, they prepare students for lifelong careers in the industries that power America. 

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines

Over the coming decade, the NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program — led by the NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) — envisions supporting multiple flourishing regional innovation ecosystems across the U.S., spurring economic growth in regions that have not fully participated in the technology boom of the past few decades.

The program seeks to catalyze and foster innovation ecosystems across the United States to:

• Advance critical technologies like semiconductors, artificial intelligence, advanced wireless and biotechnology.
• Address pressing national and societal challenges.
• Cultivate partnerships across industry, academia, government, nonprofits, civil society and communities of practice.
• Promote and stimulate economic growth and job creation.
• Spur regional innovation and talent.

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• Resource Publication Date: 2026
• Posted by: Hannah Jenuwine
• Posted in: Building Pathways