The Trump administration's move to shutter the nation's largest job training program for low-income youth has been blocked — at least for now — by a federal judge. Why it matters: Job Corps, which ...

"Job Corps" is as simple and direct a name for a government program ... When he thought he had secured the program in 1994, Chicago swooped in and secured it instead. Despite this setback, Barrett ...

Jobs Labor Dept to suspend Job Corps centers it says put students in danger, cost taxpayers $1.7B The graduation rate of the program is just 38.6% and costs as much as $155,600 per student ...

Under the directive of the a labor department, 100 job centers in 50 states would be terminated, leaving tens of thousands of youth in the midst of job training nowhere to go, the court filing said.

Although the center is still operating as normal, the dark cloud of layoffs for employees and programs ending for students ...

Members of Congress and a federal judge are questioning the Trump administration’s plan to shut down Job Corps centers nationwide and halt a residential career training program for low-income youth ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - A protest was held in Chicopee Monday afternoon, as students and staff fight to save Job Corps centers across the country. We spoke with students and staff at Monday ...

Job Corps is a national program that's been around for 61 years, but, under the cuts, it's got less than a month left to operate. "This is a beautiful resource they placed in the city of ...

CHICOPEE — Closing Job Corps programs like the one in Chicopee would be “irrational,” a Wednesday court filing said. Backers insist the Department of Labor’s case against the 60-year-old ...