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 ...

U.S. Sen. Blumenthal: “Ending the Job Corps would be cruel and stupid.” Credit: Adam Walker Photos Plumbing student Troy Sanders: “I want to do something that is gonna make me good money.” The New ...

News that the federal government is preparing to close the Cassadaga Job Corps Academy is a shock to many, including students and faculty. The Job Corps is a federal job training and education program ...

Connecticut is home to two Job Corps centers, a federally funded residential program that trains 16- to 24-year-olds for jobs in health care, carpentry, plumbing, manufacturing, technology and other ...

Nearly 200 San Diego workers could lose their jobs as the Trump administration looks to end a federal job training program it says is ineffective. The U.S. Department of Labor announced in late May it ...

Despite the uncertain fate of the federally funded Job Corps program, its facility in Devens has begun recruiting more students to apply for free technical training. The Shriver Job Corps Center has ...

Connecticut is home to two Job Corps centers, a federally funded residential program that trains 16- to 24-year-olds for jobs in health care, carpentry, plumbing, manufacturing, technology and other ...

Students at Job Corps centers across the country, including Tongue Point Center in Astoria, filed a class action lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to prevent the Trump administration from shutting down ...

Sierra Nevada Job Corps says its numbers demonstrate successful efforts to help at-risk youth, in contradiction to a critical U.S. Labor Department analysis that's being used to justify a shutdown of ...