Thousands of students and faculty members belonging to the federal Job Corps program learned this week that all learning centers will shut down in just a few weeks.
“Before I got here, I was actually out on the street. I’ve had nowhere to stay, at one point sleeping under a bridge,” said Tyrone Brown, Jr., a student at the Edison Job Corps campus.
Brown is just one of thousands of people between 16 and 24 years old who enrolled in Job Corps, a place where they can live on campus and learn trades to help them succeed…