Job Corps closing

[Lexx Diamond]

Labor Department suspends Job Corps centers operations, drawing bipartisan pushback​

by Aris Folley - 05/30/25 12:13 PM ET

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced this week it will pause operations at Job Corps centers nationwide, a move that has already gotten pushback from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill.

The department said Thursday it will begin a “phased pause” initiating “an orderly transition for students, staff, and local communities.” The pause will occur by June 30, the office said.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the program has been found to no longer achieve “the intended outcomes that students deserve,” citing what she described as “a startling number of serious incident reports and our in-depth fiscal analysis.”

“We remain committed to ensuring all participants are supported through this transition and connected with the resources they need to succeed as we evaluate the program’s possibilities.”

Job Corps, established as part of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, is a free residential education and job training program for low-income people between 16 and 24 years of age.


Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) defended the program in a statement expressing strong opposition to the DOL’s move to pause operations.

“Serving nearly 500 students in Maine, the Loring Job Corps Center and the Penobscot Job Corps Center have become important pillars of support for some of our most disadvantaged young adults,” Collins said in a statement.

“That’s why at an Appropriations hearing just last week, I urged Secretary Chavez-DeRemer to resume enrollment at Maine’s two Job Corps centers and to reverse the Department’s proposed elimination of the Job Corps program,” she continued, adding that, while atop the funding committee, she will “continue to work to support this valuable program.”

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees annual DOL funding, also called the step by the Trump administration one “in the wrong direction, exacerbating our state’s workforce shortage, locking students out of good-paying jobs, and hurting our Made in Wisconsin economy and businesses who rely on skilled workers to compete and grow.”

“Congress appropriated funding for Job Corps, and the Trump Administration can’t just decide to not spend it because they want to make room for tax cuts for billionaires,” she said in a statement on Friday.

The department noted its decision to suspend operations aligns with President Trump’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal and pointed to what it called “significant financial challenges” faced by the program.

It’s the latest instance of the administration drawing criticism from top appropriators in Congress as it continues a sweeping operation aimed at cutting costs and shrinking the size of government.

https://thehill.com/business/budget/5325826-labor-department-job-corps-centers/

 

[Lexx Diamond]

 

[PsiBorg]

Damn shame...

 

[Ceenote]

This is very unfortunate!

 

[Da Backshot Champ]

Remember tbis is all christian shit, so if you mad blame you "maker".

 

[knightmelodic]

JC girls was fuckin like rabbits back in the day

oh, and this is just more two-way "policy" by the trump clown show. two-way because it 1. punishes enemies whether real or perceived and 2. it allows for more grafting

people have no concept of the grafting going on now. maybe our grandchildren will realize the full extent

 

[CoTtOnMoUf]

trump is making sure that black people get fucked, any way that he can do it. They hate us and they're pulling out all of the stops to see that we don't get help for anything!

This administration hates and despises us, and they are experts at making this fuckery appear like "normal" procedures, smmfh.

 

[meilmarc]

Can't stand these Honkeys

 

[Mask]

Remember tbis is all christian shit, so if you mad blame you "maker".

Boy yall is crazy

I get what you meant tho but still funny

 

[jawnswoop]

I mean at this point, I'm cool with people scamming to survive..

Fuck TRUMP and all those who voted for him.

 

[jack walsh13]

Man this is so fucked up on so many levels.

 

[jawnswoop]

I went to job corps back then in 07, I was able to get a job working for some contractors and real estate investors back then.

I smashed girls and few teachers they had downstairs in a secret room that looked like a basement..Fun times indeed..

Oh, yeah, they gave me a check as well when you graduate..

 

[jawnswoop]

Man this is so fucked up on so many levels.

Yeah, shit getting spooky out here with people willing to do anything to survive to make money..

Trump shutting down everything that gives people a chance to make a decent living leaning a trade.

 

[jack walsh13]

I went to job corps back then in 07, I was able to get a job working for come contractors and real estate investors back then.

I smashed girls and few teachers they had downstairs in a secret room that looked like a basement..Fun times indeed..

Oh, yeah, they gave me a check as well when you graduate..

I worked for Edison Prep who shared the campus with Job Corps in Edison. Lot of fuckin going on around that campus. Proof our God is an awesome God.

 

[Sango]

I went to job corps back then in 07, I was able to get a job working for come contractors and real estate investors back then.

I smashed girls and few teachers they had downstairs in a secret room that looked like a basement..Fun times indeed..

Oh, yeah, they gave me a check as well when you graduate..

So, it served its mission and purpose. See you at the protest rallies and writing to your Senators.

 

[jawnswoop]

So, it served its mission and purpose. See you at the protest rallies and writing to your Senators.

Yeah, without job corps, I wouldn't had these opportunities to make money the way I did back then without job corps..I choose job corps over going to community college at the time and when I look back, I feel like I've made the right decision to learn a trade instead of going to college for a desk office job..

 

[jawnswoop]

I worked for Edison Prep who shared the campus with Job Corps in Edison. Lot of fuckin going on around that campus. Proof our God is an awesome God.

The job corps that I went to was on 46th & Market.

 

[Hey Julian!]

Wow, literally if there's any program, you would want to actually do the opposite of closing it's job corp. It's literally giving people work skills to contribute to the economy. I know several people who were in job corp. Fucking crazy.

 

[jack walsh13]

The job corps that I went to was on 46th & Market.

Oh I know you had some good times then. I was dealing with East Orange, Patterson and Newark bitches back then. One chick was a spittin image of Lauryn Hill. Talk about fun. Chocked the livin shit outta her like my name was Big John Stud before I shot love juice in her mouth. Jesus loves us.

 

[DiGeneral]

A Fuckery dis! 3 of my friends of 30+ years, were able to get their shit together while in JC. 2 have successful electrical businesses, the other is a Master Electrician currently working at Tyler Perry's studio.

 

[jawnswoop]

Oh I know you had some good times then. I was dealing with East Orange, Patterson and Newark bitches back then. One chick was a spittin image of Lauryn Hill. Talk about fun. Chocked the livin shit outta her like my name was Big John Stud before I shot love juice in her mouth. Jesus loves us.

Yeah, had this fine ass chick she looked like lauren london with a nice shaved pussy but I wore a condom because I didn't want to become a father at the time.

Them chicks would change their clothes in front of you as well. I think I still have panties of one of the girls from years ago from job corps unless I lost it or threw it away by an accident.

A lot of them chicks didn't wear no panties showing their butt crack or opening their legs wearing them short skirts back then.

I had some fun wild times back then and we got away with a lot being sneaky at job corps.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Yeah, had this fine ass chick she looked like lauren london with a nice shaved pussy but I wore a condom because I didn't want to become a father at the time.

Them chicks would change their clothes in front of you as well. I think I still have panties of one of the girls from years ago from job corps unless I lost it or threw it away by an accident.

A lot of them chicks didn't wear no panties showing their butt crack or opening their legs wearing them short skirts back then.

I had some fun wild times back then and we got away with a lot being sneaky at job corps.

It never occurred to you they were slow with poor hygiene. Y'all brothers are in the hunt.

 

[moblack]

Mark my words they will house illegal immigrants in them facilities

 

[Temujin]

A Fuckery dis! 3 of my friends of 30+ years, were able to get their shit together while in JC. 2 have successful electrical businesses, the other is a Master Electrician currently working at Tyler Perry's studio.

It's ridiculous. We keep saying we need more technical and career training for these kids but then we cut one of the most impactful program to take youth and at risk youth and put them on the path to a career.

 

[Temujin]

It never occurred to you they were slow with poor hygiene. Y'all brothers are in the hunt.

I didn't want to say it but fucking a lot of job corps chicks is not the flex lol. These were the troubled youth with bad home environments many times job corp back in my day was used as a jail diversion program and for girls that got pregnant or were acting up in their neighboorhood. So it's not crazy difficult to fuck troubled teenagers away from home. But some of these brothers were troubled teenagers away from home as well. lol

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

I didn't want to say it but fucking a lot of job corps chicks is not the flex lol. These were the troubled youth with bad home environments many times job corp back in my day was used as a jail diversion program and for girls that got pregnant or were acting up in their neighboorhood. So it's not crazy difficult to fuck troubled teenagers away from home. But some of these brothers were troubled teenagers away from home as well. lol

You can tell from the tone of his posts that he's not well, but you know…

That's why the story of us being sex-crazed etc etc sells. All it takes is one deranged brother to set the whole of us back.

 

[ghoststrike]

So much for the "Minority/DEI/Urban/Etc. programs mostly benefit White women and therefore has nothing to do with Black people" argument being peddled

 

[RoadRage]

On one hand, I see how this can be seen as a blow to poor blacks looking for their troubled children to have 2nd chance at life.
But on the other hand, we need to be less dependent on the government and stop thinking they are here to help us.
Because the best protection you can have for your children's well-being and prosperity is a strong family, not the government, and the fact that many of those kids at Job Core wind up getting pregnant by guys whose lives are just as messed up, only creates a cycle of future government dependency.

 

[tallblacknyc]

On one hand, I see how this can be seen as a blow to poor blacks looking for their troubled children to have 2nd chance at life.
But on the other hand, we need to be less dependent on the government and stop thinking they are here to help us.
Because the best protection you can have for your children's well-being and prosperity is a strong family, not the government, and the fact that many of those kids at Job Core wind up getting pregnant by guys whose lives are just as messed up, only creates a cycle of future government dependency.

Easier to say than do… telling a starving person in the street that he shouldn’t rely on government help isn’t going to feed his stomach right than and there, waiting for the community to do the right thing for that person will more likely have them dying of starvation within the week.. talk is cheap and nothing has ever progressed by talking about a problem , only when action occurs does progression happen.. right now talking about what the community should or could do ain’t gonna provide roofs over those kids head tonight or tomorrow, not hiring or giving those kids jobs right now ain’t gonna put food on the table tonight.. so as of right now this is all bad for them youths who were looking to better themselves or giving them a fighting chance in this world that for the most part don’t care.. that one kid has zero family to go to , no help, no shelter, he is fucked, the mom that might have to cancel her breast cancer surgery might be fucked cause of this situation

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Easier to say than do… telling a starving person in the street that he shouldn’t rely on government help isn’t going to feed his stomach right than and there, waiting for the community to do the right thing for that person will more likely have them dying of starvation within the week.. talk is cheap and nothing has ever progressed by talking about a problem , only when action occurs does progression happen.. right now talking about what the community should or could do ain’t gonna provide roofs over those kids head tonight or tomorrow, not hiring or giving those kids jobs right now ain’t gonna put food on the table tonight.. so as of right now this is all bad for them youths who were looking to better themselves or giving them a fighting chance in this world that for the most part don’t care.. that one kid has zero family to go to , no help, no shelter, he is fucked, the mom that might have to cancel her breast cancer surgery might be fucked cause of this situation

Black folks talk about Africa, but how many folks do you think from the diaspora have actually gone to “Africa” and done any work?

If you were to look up Molefi Asante, you're going to see him in full African garb. If you were to ever see his son, you would see his son wearing $1000 loafers. Its why Kanye’s mother died trying to get enlarge her breasts and why her son is an ardent capitalist.

Its why Ngugi was arrested by the same man the British tossed into prison. All of these mothafuckas are dying to sell out to power. They're not serious about trying to take it back and destroy it. Anyone elected and running to be elected is part of the problem. Anyone that has felt compelled to go to any of these universities can and has been corrupted.

 

[RoadRage]

Easier to say than do… telling a starving person in the street that he shouldn’t rely on government help isn’t going to feed his stomach right than and there, waiting for the community to do the right thing for that person will more likely have them dying of starvation within the week.. talk is cheap and nothing has ever progressed by talking about a problem , only when action occurs does progression happen.. right now talking about what the community should or could do ain’t gonna provide roofs over those kids head tonight or tomorrow, not hiring or giving those kids jobs right now ain’t gonna put food on the table tonight.. so as of right now this is all bad for them youths who were looking to better themselves or giving them a fighting chance in this world that for the most part don’t care.. that one kid has zero family to go to , no help, no shelter, he is fucked, the mom that might have to cancel her breast cancer surgery might be fucked cause of this situation

Breaking addiction is never easy, but community support might be a short-term solution to fill in the gap before we get back to building responsible families. My solution is to give tax breaks and incentives to married people as a way of rewarding the hard-working people who are fighting during these difficult times to make it rather than encouraging people to be dependent on the very same government that has enslaved and killed us over the years.
Keep in mind the white man works like a drug, the only reason why he gives us anything is to make us dependent on him knowing all along he has the power to pull the rug from under our feet at all times. To be honest many of us are not going to make it, just like many junkies die from OD, so our focus should be on getting as much of our people off of the white crack(ers) as soon as possible, before it's too late.

 

[DC_Dude]

Yeah this shit is so bad on so many levels. I have family members that turned their lives around because of Job Corp....Saw this and was livid

Both of my family members sold drugs and now have successful mechanic shops in rural SC making crazy money......Truly don't understand this administration...

 

[tallblacknyc]

Breaking addiction is never easy, but community support might be a short-term solution to fill in the gap before we get back to building responsible families. My solution is to give tax breaks and incentives to married people as a way of rewarding the hard-working people who are fighting during these difficult times to make it rather than encouraging people to be dependent on the very same government that has enslaved and killed us over the years.
Keep in mind the white man works like a drug, the only reason why he gives us anything is to make us dependent on him knowing all along he has the power to pull the rug from under our feet at all times. To be honest many of us are not going to make it, just like many junkies die from OD, so our focus should be on getting as much of our people off of the white crack(ers) as soon as possible, before it's too late.

A billion dollar goes to Israel every yr, native Americans don’t have to pay taxes, get to go to college for free and various other perks, the Asians that had to work on building the railroads back in the day got reparations, foreigners get all kinda incentives for starting businesses in certain neighborhoods, Jews have gotten all kinda money and perks, yet when it come to black people getting crumbs you have a problem.. well look how so many others have advanced due to handouts.. sounds like black people need to get some of those handouts since it helped so many others.. when others get help people give them all kinda props for being in their position but as soon as some black people get a lil help some people get mad that we get assistance.. tell me how that make since.. somebody else gets assistance head start during a race and people celebrate them winning a gold medal and as soon as a black person wants a lil headstart nigs get mad and say they shouldn’t get it or frown if they win a medal, tell me in what world does that make sense.. you claim you hate handouts yet want married people to get handouts..incentives just a nice word for handouts

 

[RoadRage]

A billion dollar goes to Israel every yr, native Americans don’t have to pay taxes, get to go to college for free and various other perks, the Asians that had to work on building the railroads back in the day got reparations, foreigners get all kinda incentives for starting businesses in certain neighborhoods, Jews have gotten all kinda money and perks, yet when it come to black people getting crumbs you have a problem.. well look how so many others have advanced due to handouts.. sounds like black people need to get some of those handouts since it helped so many others.. when others get help people give them all kinda props for being in their position but as soon as some black people get a lil help some people get mad that we get assistance.. tell me how that make since.. somebody else gets assistance head start during a race and people celebrate them winning a gold medal and as soon as a black person wants a lil headstart nigs get mad and say they shouldn’t get it or frown if they win a medal, tell me in what world does that make sense.. you claim you hate handouts yet want married people to get handouts..incentives just a nice word for handouts

That's not our money, nor do we have the power to dictate how they spend their money, We need to focus on issues that we have control over and not expect those same people who give Israel all that money to have a change of heart and help us.
As soon as we come to the actualization that the government was never designed to help us, the sooner we can go back and build strong black families and strong black communities the way we did in Black Wall Street.

 

[tallblacknyc]

That's not our money, nor do we have the power to dictate how they spend their money, We need to focus on issues that we have control over and not expect those same people who give Israel all that money to have a change of heart and help us.
As soon as we come to the actualization that the government was never designed to help us, the sooner we can go back and build strong black families and strong black communities the way we did in Black Wall Street.

Actually it is our money.. tax dollars.. they take our money all the time and use it for all kinda shit.. when they tax you for 40 percent of our money why can’t they use their own money to fund other shit.. when they lets us keep all our money is when people should stop complaining, until than complain, complain