Kary had no idea of the bad news that awaited her when she filed into the gym of the Shriver Job Corps Center, a residential ...

In the DOL’s requested budget for fiscal year 2026, $176 million was requested for “closeout costs” to shut down Job Corps.

Job Corps is caught between a court order keeping it open and federal decisions that have frozen its admissions and threaten its funding.

The U.S. Department of Labor has halted contracts at the 99 contractor-operated Job Corps centers nationwide, calling it a "phased pause" in operations.

While Job Corps Centers were given the green light to continue operations again, with a lawsuit still pending, staff members are still feeling the uncertainty of the program. Supreme Court curbs ...

There are 123 Job Corps centers in the U.S., the majority of them operated by private organizations under agreements with the Department of Labor. The private centers serve more than 20,000 ...

The only other Job Corps center in Arkansas, the Cass Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center in Franklin County, is operated by the U.S. Forest Service and is not subject to the pause of ...

NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps, a residential program for low-income youth, until a ...

Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer looks as Job Corps members stand behind her during a House Education and Workforce hearing, Thursday, June 5, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps, a residential program for low-income youth, until ...