We’ll call her Anaya, but she could be any of our daughters, nieces, classmates, or friends — someone who’s struggled to hold ...

As Blavity reported, many Job Corps enrollees depend on their centers for more than just hands-on training in fields like ...

Job Corps centers run by contractors across the country are at risk of closing, unless a lawsuit against the Trump administration goes their way. While the centers face uncertain futures, some ...

Two Georgia HBCUs are reaching out to students displaced by Job Corps cuts, providing education and housing to the young ...

Averie Hartman, a Job Corps student, expressed her disappointment, sharing the anxieties of her fellow students about their immediate future. "Now we have to worry about finding a place to live ...

Job Corps, a federally-funded education and vocational program for young people aged 16 to 24, operated for over 60 years with bipartisan support. That ended when the Department of Labor announced on ...

In the DOL’s requested budget for fiscal year 2026, $176 million was requested for “closeout costs” to shut down Job Corps.

The Job Corps enrolls students on a weekly basis, which means there are students who are entering and leaving every week, with about 500 graduates a year. Funding for the organization amounts to ...

A large crowd gathered at the Stockton Fire Hall for a rally in support of Job Corps. P -J photos by Gregory Bacon STOCKTON – Arlene Tariq was the daughter of a single mother with no financial support ...

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 ...

Justin Strawther – a former student of the Long Beach Job Corps Center – had been struggling to find housing and a job after exiting the foster care system at 21.

She cited a first-ever Job Corps Transparency Report that she said revealed a 39% graduation rate, an annual per-student cost of over $80,000, and nearly 15,000 serious incidents in 2023 alone.