On hearing the news that the federal Job Corps program in Clearfield will be one of nearly 100 around the country shutting its doors, Adrian Asencio’s reaction was intense and immediate. “I was crying ...
The Trump administration’s Department of Labor announced on Thursday it would suspend operations of the Job Corps training program, prompting bipartisan criticism. “The Department should have ...
The Trump administration is planning to close 120 Job Corps training sites across the country in a matter of weeks, taking away job training and on-site housing for many of its 25,000 students, ...
Budgets reflect the priorities of the people who make them. The same is true whether you are talking about a household, a small business, or the federal government. Right now, the Republicans who ...
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the Job Corps as a cornerstone of his Great Society initiative, aiming to combat poverty by providing vocational training to disadvantaged youth. Modeled ...
Two unique job training centers in Hawaii are slated for closure in a Trump administration move to terminate the federal government’s 61-year-old Job Corps program. The U.S. Department of Labor ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps, a residential program for low-income youth, until a ...
The sudden and sweeping shutdown of Job Corps programs nationwide has left hundreds of young people and staff in limbo — including nearly 150 students and 97 workers at Talking Leaves Job Corps in ...
The Atterbury Job Corps resumed classes Friday after a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Labor’s pause on contractor-operated Job Corps around the country. Daily Journal file photo Students ...
Eighteen months ago, at around 7 p.m. practically every night, Chloe Lawson would start a four-mile walk to Subway, where she’d work the overnight shift, earning a buck above the $7.25 federal minimum ...
New Hampshire’s Job Corps training program, serving more than 200 teenagers and young adults ages 16 to 24, will close June 30 after federal labor officials put a pause last week on the nationwide ...
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