‘Very upsetting.’ Students learn Job Corps programs will be paused nationwide

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…

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