Job Corps closing
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It's not even covert or really hidden. The funds being funneled by the meme coin, mar-a-lago, the NY hotels, his "Foundation," the Qatar plane, $1 mill plate dinners in exchange for pardons......and all of that is off the top of my head. Im sure there is more I can find if I looked
A judge blocked Drumpf so they're still operating
I remember dude, I'm sure he gets a check from a 3rd party to get kids enrolled in those programs that trump just axed.
Yeah dude won't say anything smh
I remember him telling Roland he didn’t need government for what he was trying to do...lol
They all quiet!!!
FBA, ADOS, Black Conservatives.....
Not a word.....
Spending more time mocking the protestors in LA vs. putting up a fight to save a program that benefits alot of black folks....
When I was in Cleveland Job Corps 2003-2005;I heard the teachers and the security guards were fucking some of the students at the dorms. It was mostly the out of town students that were doing that shit. Some of the students like myself that was from Cleveland and the surrounding areas didn't have to stay at the dorm.
The students that lived in the dormitories had a 7:00 pm curfew even during the weekend. I'm so glad I decided to stay at home.
Back at the topic though. It makes me sick that this president is getting a great program that helped a lot of people. The Republicans did the same shit to ACORN under Bush.
Side note : Soledad's glam up got me wanting to do a BTS with her
That's what the reichpublicans do. Have done since the dixiecrats.
It's truly despicable how they cut from the people doing the fucking work and give more to the rich who don't do shit.
But at least people have some options. What they're doing to animals is criminal. And heartbreaking because animals have no options.
Ezequiel Wilbur of Omaha, 24, has had a rugged couple of years. A fight with a family member landed him in jail. Once he got out, he struggled to readjust and started using drugs.
“I was just rotting away in my bed every single day, high out of my mind. So I signed up to come to Job Corps because I thought of it as a way out,” he said.
Wilbur has been living at the Pine Ridge Job Corps Center in Chadron, Nebraska, for six months now.
He said he’s sober and is in an apprenticeship program for painting. He’s actually calling from a job site.
“So right now, we’re working for an elderly woman in town,” he said — painting her house for minimum wage and racking up on-the-job hours he needs to graduate.
The Job Corps was founded in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It gives low-income, disadvantaged youth a place to live and intensive job training in trades like construction and car repair.
But right now, nearly 100 Job Corps centers around the country are in a state of limbo while a federal judge weighs whether the Trump administration can freeze operations at those centers. And the Job Corps center where Wilbur is is on the list targeted for closure.
“It would be devastating,” he said. “I wouldn’t have anywhere to go.”
Wilbur said he’d probably end up living out of his car in his old neighborhood.
The Trump administration says costs for the residential Job Corps program are too high; it spends $80,000 on the average trainee.
“Because it’s so intensive, it’s also very expensive,” said economist Burt Barnow, who studies workforce training programs at George Washington University.
Plus, he said research on the program’s outcomes is mixed. Teenagers who go through the program don’t seem to do better on the job market than their peers who don’t.
But, “the older people who go into the job corps — typically 20 to 24 — actually do have sustained earnings gains from the program,” he said.
To make sure taxpayers are getting their money’s worth, Barnow said the Trump administration could narrow the Job Corps program’s focus to those older students rather than scrapping it.
The federal government doesn’t have much else to offer this group, noted Alfonso Flores-Lagunes with the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
“It is a very difficult population to serve, but I think that the worse option is just leaving them behind,” he said.
If these centers shut their doors, that would also impact the communities that host them, particularly in rural areas.
Jodi Mitchell is with the Bitterroot Valley Chamber of Commerce in western Montana.
“The firefighting that they help with is the biggest piece,” she said.
Students at the nearby Trapper Creek Job Corps Center help prevent and suppress wildfires and maintain hiking trails — crucial work that keeps the region’s tourism economy afloat.
I love it, mask off.
The white will never be allowed to forget the truth again after all this is said and done!
Enjoy the death rattle of the white race, it is glorious.
The white will never be allowed to forget the truth again after all this is said and done!
Enjoy the death rattle of the white race, it is glorious.
Court order allows 99 Job Corps centers to stay open
A district court issued an order that prohibits the U.S. Department of Labor from closing Job Corps centers across the country.
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By WSFA 12 News Staff
Published: Jul. 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM PDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSFA) - A district court issued an order that prohibits the U.S. Department of Labor from closing Job Corps centers across the country.
“The SPLC applauds the Court’s recognition that the Trump Department of Labor exceeded its authority and unlawfully shuttered the Job Corps program, which plays an essential role in strengthening Southern communities,” said Scott McCoy, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center. “This program has consistently reduced unemployment and homelessness, empowered underserved communities—especially for Black and Brown youth—and breaks the cycle of poverty through education, training, and opportunity."
The decision was made on behalf of seven Job Corps students and a nationwide class hoping to stop the closures.
At the start of 2025, there were 99 Job Corps centers throughout the country run by contractors under two-year contracts. But on May 29, the Department of Labor announced the suspension of the Job Corps program and that all 99 Job Corps centers would be closed by June 30.
Last month, a New York court put the closures on hold, but earlier this week allowed the closures to go through at 63 of the centers. As a result, thousands of vulnerable young people are at risk of losing access to Job Corps education and training, their place to live, and their access to health care and other services in the coming days.
“The Department of Labor’s decision to abruptly close Job Corps centers across the country, ignoring legal requirements and literally putting vulnerable young people on the street, was callous, and as the Judge today agreed, illegal,” said Adam Pulver, an attorney with Public Citizen Litigation Group and lead counsel for the plaintiffs. “The Department’s ludicrous argument to the court, that in shutting down 99 Job Corps centers it was not actually closing those centers, was a naked attempt to evade clear law.”
In the Friday ruling, the court held that “the record unequivocally demonstrates that DOL unlawfully ‘closed’ all 99 privately operated Job Corps centers,” in violation of requirements imposed by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
The court granted the students’ request for a stay of the DOL’s directive to close the 99 centers.
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