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 ...
Facing homelessness when he aged out of the system, he was given a lifeline when he found a place at Job Corps, the nation’s oldest and most prolific vocational job training program for young ...
The Trump administration announced the closure of 99 out of 123 Job Corps centers nationwide. Job Corps, a program providing free education and job training for low-income youth, is being cut despite ...
A federal judge granted an injunction preventing the closure of 123 Job Corps centers, including two in Iowa. The Department of Labor's decision to close the centers was based on allegations of high ...