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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Justin Strawther – a former student of the Long Beach Job Corps Center – had been struggling to find housing and a job after exiting the foster care system at 21. He reached the age of 24 with no luck ...

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 ...