A federal judge has ruled that Job Corps centers nationwide must remain open, including the one near Camp Atterbury.

A district court issued an order that prohibits the U.S. Department of Labor from closing Job Corps centers across the country.

Job Corps centers will now remain open, but the labor department can continue to fight the rulings. All the uncertainty has ...

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joined Iroquois Job Corps students and staff to demands a halt to the elimination ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer visited Orleans County Tuesday to fight to save a local workforce training center.

Six months later, this difference had decreased to 22 cents per hour. [18] Job Corps does not provide the skills and training to substantially raise the wages of participants.

Job Corps, which began as part of the War on Poverty in 1964, provides free education, job training and a place to live for low-income youth ages 16 to 24.

President Trump recently called Job Corps a “failed experiment,” saying that the per-student cost each year — estimated at $80,000 annually — is not a good use of taxpayer money.

The federal government's Job Corps gives young people — between the ages of 16 and 24 — a second chance at a diploma and a trade. Esther Johnson, the first African-American woman to head the ...

Esther Johnson recently visited the Guthrie Job Corps Center in Oklahoma. It serves more than 40,000 young men and women in that state, as well as Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico.