54-year-old El Paso Job Corps center gets closure reprieve with 98 others after ruling

El Paso’s David L. Carrasco Job Corps center has been saved from closure, along with dozens of other centers nationwide, by a federal judge’s recent ruling.

It had about 150 employees and about 300 students at the end of May.

The El Paso center, which for 54 years has provided job training and other education to youths, ages 16-24, from low-income families, was slated to close June 30, along with 98 other centers nationwide, under a U.S. Department of Labor, or DOL, order…

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