| Participants in the Corps must be economically disadvantaged. |
The Corps shall strive to include a diversity of participants. |
Individuals are eligible to participate if their Priority must be |
given to those whose family income is 150% or less of the nonfarm |
income official poverty line as defined by the federal Office of |
Management and Budget as revised annually in accordance with the |
United States Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Section |
673, Subsection 2. Priority must be given and to those who are |
economically disadvantaged as defined by the United States Job |
Training Partnership Act, Subchapter II, Public Law 97-300. A |
person is not eligible if that person has left employment or a |
secondary school for the purpose of participating in this |
program. Corps members may be jointly enrolled in any state or |
local job training program or human resource development program. |
Corps members enrolled in the Job Training Partnership program |
must be enrolled in that program by the service delivery area |
responsible for the county of residence of the enrollee pursuant |
to voluntary agreements entered into between the Corps and the |
service delivery areas. |