JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — By the end of this month, thousands of students and staff in the federally funded program called Job Corps will no longer be in the program.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced a phased closure for all 99 job corps centers nationwide, citing financial challenges and a series of problems including sexual assaults.
For more than 60 years, the Job Corps program has provided free education, housing and job training to people between the ages of 16 to 24…