Job Corps is a government-run program providing low-income and at-risk youth with skills training, housing, and meals, preparing them to enter the workforce and improve their lot in life. Many of these at-risk students were left with no place to go and few options to continue their skills training when the Department of Labor attempted … Continued
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I work for an organization that had job corps students as interns and it was pretty devastating when the news about job corps closing broke. Especially since many of our interns had nowhere to go and were going to be homeless. Truly a “fuck them kids” moment