Attorney General Mayes Joins Multi-State Legal Push to Save Job Corps Program

David Marshall: Killing Job Corps is killing equity

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—There is no poor, working- or middle-class adult in America whose life has not been touched by either Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Roosevelt’s New Deal (1930s) primarily focused on the economic recovery and the protection of workers from the Great Depression. While the New Deal failed to address institutionalized discrimination, Johnson’s Great Society (1960s) aimed to eradicate social and…

Attorney General Mayes Joins Multi-State Legal Push to Save Job Corps Program

PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has joined attorneys general from 18 other states in filing an amicus brief in defense of the Job Corps program, a federally funded initiative that provides housing, education, and career training to low-income youth across the United States. Filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the brief argues that the… Source

What’s Next for the Job Corps? - Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien

In 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act established the Job Corps – a program that offers free vocational training to low-income young adults between ages 16-24. In addition to training, it provides housing for most of the enrolled students. In May, the Department of Labor announced it would begin a so-called “phased pause” of operations at contractor-operated […]

They shut down Job Corps in New Mexico. Now what?

The Department of Labor quietly shut down Job Corps in New Mexico. No warning. No backup plan. Just gone.