‘This was my last chance’: Fight to keep Job Corps open seen nationally and in Pinellas County

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Pinellas County Job Corps will host a job fair Wednesday to help its students and staff after the U.S. Department of Labor announced it would be pausing the Job Corps program nationwide.

Job Corps is a vocational trade school designed to help low-income students.

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“This was my last chance to actually do something with my life so I kind of want to help save this place,” said Skye Considine, a student at Job Corps.

Considine said she had about a year and a half left in her program at the Pinellas County location. Now, she and more than 100 other students have just days left before the campus closes down…

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