Don't Cut a Program That Helps Young Americans Get Jobs

Bloomberg

15-07-2025

Job Corps, one of the largest and oldest job training programs in the country, finds itself on life support. For decades, it has prepared tens of thousands of poor, often homeless and low-skilled young people for solid jobs in construction, skilled trades, hotels, restaurants and more.
Now, a rash and ill-considered decision by the Trump administration has abruptly halted funding for the program, potentially leaving students who live at Job Corps sites with no place to go. A federal judge's injunction is keeping the centers in operation temporarily while a lawsuit goes through the courts.