CHICAGO (WLS) -- Young people are scrambling, as Job Corps centers are shutting down in Chicago and across the country. The Chicago center that educates young people and helps them find jobs is slated to close down with only a couple of days of notice, after a federal funding pause.

Joe Walsh, a former Republican member of Congress, said Tuesday he is becoming a Democrat, marking the end of his five-year streak as a political independent after leaving the GOP in 2020. Walsh announced his formal affiliation with the Democratic Party in a Tuesday Substack post, saying he made the decision because he views the…

Job Corps operates as a federally funded educational and career training program for low-income Americans aged 16 to 24.

A federal judge in New York on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from dismantling the Job Corps program.

The federal government’s pausing of Job Corps operations has drawn outrage and questions about what it does.

Students at the Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center, 3348 S. Kedzie Ave., said they were blindsided by the decision. Job Corps is a free program for thousands of low-income students across the ...