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| MY BIOGRAPHY |
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Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. 108th Congress |
| Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. began service in the United States House of Representatives on December 12, 1995, as a member of the 104th Congress. |
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Now in his fifth term, Congressman Jackson sits on the House Appropriations Committee, serving on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs. |
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He has secured nearly $500 million in federal grants and appropriations for his district, including:
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Over $13.3 million in direct funding to local
school districts, including over $3.8 million to
Chicago Public Schools. |
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Over $15.9 million for education programs at Chicagoland universities and community organizations. |
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$3.75 million in assistance to local law enforcement agencies. |
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Over $3.1 million for high-tech emergency dispatch centers in the South Suburbs, similar to the one in Chicago. |
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Over $4.1 million for first responders, including direct funding to local fire departments. |
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$64.8 million dollars for health care services. |
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Nearly $6.5 million for environmental cleanup efforts. |
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Over $11.75 million for Ford Heights, IL, the most poverty stricken suburb in the nation. Over $10 million went to provide safe drinking water and stop yearly flooding in Ford Heights. |
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$84.1 million for housing initiatives. |
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$11.1 million for job training and employment programs. |
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$6.7 million to replace run-down Metra stations on the South Side, and to expand Metra service. |
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Over $26 million in road improvements. |
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$68.5 million for reconstruction of Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline. |
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Over $10.3 million for social service programs. |
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$11.75 million for bus, rail, and other transportation projects. |
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Over $142 million for water, sewer, and flood control projects, including the Deep Tunnel project. |
Congressman Jackson's leadership created the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health in 2001, hailed by many minority health experts as the most important civil rights legislation since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He also secured funding for the Institute of Medicine's 2002 report on health disparities, "Unequal Treatment."
In 2005, Congressman Jackson spearheaded the successful effort to commission a statue of civil rights leader Rosa Parks in the rotunda of the United States Capitol.
In addition, Congressman Jackson has served as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission since 2003, and as a member of the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics Senior Advisory Board since 2000.
In 1987, Congressman Jackson graduated magna cum laude from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management. Three years later, he earned a Master of Arts Degree in Theology from the Chicago Theological Seminary, and in 1993, received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Illinois College of Law. He has also been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from the Chicago Theological Seminary, Governors State University, North Carolina A & T State University, Charles R. Drew Univ. of Medicine and Science, Meharry Medical College and Morehouse School of Medicine.
Congressman Jackson has co-authored A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights (2001) with Frank E. Watkins. He has also co-authored Legal Lynching II (2001), It's About the Money (1999) and Legal Lynching (1996).
Congressman Jackson resides in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, with his wife Sandi, daughter Jessica Donatella, and son Jesse L. Jackson, III.
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