TONIGHT AT TEN. PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS TO CUT FUNDING TO JOB CORPS. THESE ARE PROGRAMS KNOWN TO TAKE YOUTH OFF THE STREETS AND GET THEM WORK TRAINING. WELL, TONIGHT, A TARGET 7 INVESTIGATION. JASON ...

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 ...

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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 ...

At breakfast with the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce a few months ago, a student wielding a sprayer demonstrated how to fireproof a building. Najese Hood said later that when he finishes ...

As he layered on bricklaying skills, Justin Quiles felt he could see his earning prospects rising. Then word came last week that the Trump administration plans to close the Westover Job Corps and 98 ...

Connecticut is home to two Job Corps centers, a federally funded residential program that trains 16- to 24-year-olds for jobs in health care, carpentry, plumbing, manufacturing, technology and other ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to keep Job Corps—the nation’s largest residential job training program for low-income youth—operating until a lawsuit fighting efforts to shutter the ...

NEW HAVEN — Monet Campbell, donning blue scrubs and preparing to begin as a new student at Central Connecticut State University next month, is a long way from where she started one year ago when she ...

Jun. 7—River Brown, 23, has been floating around food service jobs since she was 15. Struggling to pay for the cost of living and facing homelessness, she joined the Albuquerque Job Corps in February.

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Students at Job Corps centers across the country, including Tongue Point Center in Astoria, filed a class action lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to prevent the Trump administration from shutting down ...