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

The Job Corps was founded in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It gives low-income, disadvantaged youth a place to live and intensive job training in trades like construction and car repair.

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

If the program is killed, thousands of young people will no longer be trained for the jobs needed to staff new or reopened ...

The District Judge said the abrupt shuttering of the 60-year-old program without authorization from Congress was likely illegal.

In his order, Carter outlined the difficult life circumstances many Job Corps students are attempting to overcome as they work to gain skills in industries like construction and manufacturing.

Earlier this spring, the Trump administration proposed eliminating all Job Corps centers in his "skinny budget," which was submitted to Congress.

It seems clear that Trump is attempting to tighten his authoritarian vise grip on the American people, and the nation’s ...

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's plan to shut down the taxpayer-funded Job Corps has to be put on pause until a lawsuit against the move is resolved.