Resource Fair for Students Affected by Job Corps Closure Planned in Detroit

Resource fair for students affected by Job Corps closure planned in Detroit

DETROIT, MI - Five Detroit groups are planning a resource fair this week for young adults affected by the programmatic pause to Job Corps, a federal education program put on hold by the Trump administration late last month.

AG Tong files amicus brief in support of Job Corps ahead of hearing

Attorney General William Tong joined 20 attorney generals across the country in filing an amicus brief in defense of the Job Corps program.  Job Corps is a federal job training program that provides training, education and housing at no-cost to its participants. It has more than 120 locations in the country, including two in Connecticut.  On May 29, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which oversees the Job Corps program, announced a “phased pau…

What’s Next for the Job Corps?

In 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act established the Job Corps – a program that offers free vocational training to low-income young adults between ages 16-24. In addition to training, it provides housing for most of the enrolled students. In May, the Department of Labor announced it would begin a so-called “phased pause” of operations at contractor-operated Job Corps sites across the country. Donna Hay is the president and CEO of the National J…

David Marshall: Killing Job Corps is killing equity

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—There is no poor, working- or middle-class adult in America whose life has not been touched by either Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Roosevelt’s New Deal (1930s) primarily focused on the economic recovery and the protection of workers from the Great Depression. While the New Deal failed to address institutionalized discrimination, … Continued

Attorney General Mayes Joins Multi-State Legal Push to Save Job Corps Program

PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has joined attorneys general from 18 other states in filing an amicus brief in defense of the Job Corps program, a federally funded initiative that provides housing, education, and career training to low-income youth across the United States. Filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the brief argues that the… Source