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Students at the Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center, 3348 S. Kedzie Ave., said they were blindsided by the decision.
A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's order to close America's 99 Job Corps centers, which provide residential training programs for 25,000 disadvantaged youth annually.
A second federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from winding down the Job Corps training program for low-income ...
Operations are back to normal at the Clearfield Job Corps program, at least for now, after a judge's ruling halting plans to shutter it and 98 other programs around the country.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to pull the plug on Job Corps, issuing an order which at least pauses the closure of an Astoria center that would have ...
Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend operations at its 99 Job Corps centers due to budget constraints. Marissa Sulek reports on the impact at a Chicago facility.
CHICOPEE — Closing Job Corps programs like the one in Chicopee would be “irrational,” a Wednesday court filing said. Backers insist the Department of Labor’s case against the 60-year-old ...
INDIANAPOLIS — We're digging deeper into the Job Corps center shutdowns across the country that are leaving some young people homeless. And we're hearing from Indiana lawmakers about the closures. The ...
We’ll call her Anaya, but she could be any of our daughters, nieces, classmates, or friends — someone who’s struggled to hold ...
The latest: Job Corps closures are hitting major cities hard — including the Atlanta area, Detroit, Chicago, Florida, New York and the Bay Area — where thousands of students ages 16–24 rely ...