Iowa Job Corps students can stay in residential program, for now

A federal judge has extended an order that temporarily blocks the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down about 100 Job Corps training centers for low-income youth, including two Iowa centers.

The federal program has provided free education, vocational training and housing to young adults for more than 60 years.

Ryan Dunker, a native of Ida Grove, is a student at the Job Corps center in Denison, one of two residential programs in the state. The other location is in Ottumwa…

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