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Department of Labor Suspends Job Corps Operations for Failing American Students
Breitbart ^ | may 29 2025 | Sean Moran

Posted on 05/30/2025 11:03:05 AM PDT by Morgana

The Department of Labor on Thursday announced it has paused its Job Corps operations, cautioning that the program has issues with student safety and fiscal sustainability.

“Job Corps was created to help young adults build a pathway to a better life through education, training, and community,” Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a written statement. “However, a startling number of serious incident reports and our in-depth fiscal analysis reveal the program is no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve.”

The Department of Labor just released its first-of-its-kind Job Corps Transparency Report, using data from program year 2023, which found concerning results.

The Job Corps program is a federally funded residential career training and education program that is often popular with unions and centered around low-income young adults.

The report found that the average graduation rate for the program is only 32 percent. After graduating from the program, participants only earned $16,000 annually, which is barely above the poverty line.

More so, the program often suffers from safety issues, as there were 14,913 incident reports in 2023, even though there were only 25,000 participants.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: education; jobcorps; savejobcorps
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This really grieves me to no end. As some of you know I am a Job Corps Alumni. I know this program really works and I am a success story.

I also can explain a lot in this in story.

Job Corps is not your local Publik Skool okay? Let's make that clear right now.

Okay from the article two key points:

"More so, the program often suffers from safety issues, as there were 14,913 incident reports in 2023, even though there were only 25,000 participants"

and from this article posted recently

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4314047/posts

"The Job Corps has only a 32% graduation rate, though statistics have typically been calculated using a misleading definition of “graduate,” which bumped the number up slightly to 39%. Of about 30,000 enrollees in the 2023-24 school year, roughly 10,000 were expelled for misconduct,"

Okay Yes I was in Job Corps and I do remember that. Job Corps had ZERO TOLERANCE for things like fighting or drugs unlike our public schools. I saw kids come there and in 48 hours or less, would beat up another kid and Job Corps put that kid on a bus and sent him or her home. I could not believe how retarded some of those kids could be and throw away a chance like that but they did it all the three years I was there. This was back in the 90's so I'm sure not much has changed and it's gotten worse.

Also from the previous article:

"Job Corps participants earn $16,695 per year on average after leaving the program, according to new government data. "

WHY IS THIS? Oh wait I think I know. Let me explain. One of the classes taught at Job Corps? Carpentry, as in house building. Roofing stuff like that. Sounds to me that kind of job would earn a person a lot of money. Yet..yet...here lately I've posted videos by Cash Jordan et al where ICE has gone in and busted construction sites where all the employees were NOT Job Corps and were illegals. Do you all see where I am going with this? Not only are Job Corps grads not working but Americans not working.

I suspect there is more to this story. Honestly you all I'd rather have Job Corps than the public schools. Divert money from the public schools if we have to but keep Job Corps.

If you all have any more questions about Job Corps feel free to ask me.

1 posted on 05/30/2025 11:03:05 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Sounds like the intent of the program is really good.
I'll bet it will be back with better management under Trump.
2 posted on 05/30/2025 11:12:06 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Morgana

Unfortunately, today the vast majority of high schoolers are incredibly stupid.

Teachers deserve a large chunk of blame so do the disinterested parents.


3 posted on 05/30/2025 11:14:25 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rulsh!!!!!)
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To: Morgana

Why should career training programs be residential? That seems to really inflate the cost of such a program.


4 posted on 05/30/2025 11:17:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Morgana

Construction uses illegal for only one reason and we all know what that is, and it isn’t because American’s won’t do it...

Cheap labor, ignoring safety, and no insurance prices out Americans. I knew a guy who had done construction most of his life told me he finally quit because he didn’t speak Spanish and they stopped hiring him because of that.


5 posted on 05/30/2025 11:19:14 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: 9YearLurker

CETA-remember that? Comprehensive Education and Training Act. Like Head Start it didn’t work. Guys showed up at 8am drunk.

I do believe Reagan got rid of it.

Peace Corps/Americorps. ‘Educated’ young folks who have ‘made it’ going into poor areas to assuage their guilt at being born middle class. Turns them into lifetime leftists-(their mission).


6 posted on 05/30/2025 11:24:35 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Don’t forget midnight basketball.


7 posted on 05/30/2025 11:25:42 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: 9YearLurker

Getting get to kids out of the ghetto, away from drugged friends and gangs has a lot of value. That is why the program is residential


8 posted on 05/30/2025 11:27:53 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats are pedophiles )
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To: Morgana

Job Corps does lots of great things, especially for vulnerable populations.

As Morgana has noted, the COUNTRY has failed these kids.

Flooding the country with illegal labor, not prosecuting those businesses that hire those illegals, and pushing the “everyone goes to College” crap.

Kid from a difficult background, learns an employable skill, gets a decent paying job to start, develops some confidence and deserved respect from hard work. We need a whole bunch more of this.

MAGA is the basis for just this kind of direction.


9 posted on 05/30/2025 11:28:42 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: Fai Mao

Housing them with a lot of fellow delinquents clearly doesn’t work.


10 posted on 05/30/2025 11:28:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Morgana

It’s not authorized by the Constitution.

End it.

L


11 posted on 05/30/2025 11:36:40 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Why should career training programs be residential? That seems to really inflate the cost of such a program.

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residential experience fits better for careers in ballot harvesting or vote mules


12 posted on 05/30/2025 11:51:51 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: thinden

Ah, gotchya!


13 posted on 05/30/2025 11:56:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ABStrauss

Check


14 posted on 05/30/2025 12:08:56 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Morgana

1969— A fresh faced young David Vandreissen pulls into a dirt-poor Appalachian wide spot in the road driving his older Lincoln.
He spies an old fellow lounging on the porch of a shack.
“Hello sir!”
“Whatchoo want boy?”
“Well, I’m with the war on poverty, And I’m here to help.”
The old fellow looks over at his car.
“Waaal, it shor looks like you won.”


15 posted on 05/30/2025 12:51:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Morgana
Long before the Job Corps, high schools across the nation had "Distributive Education", that allowed students to have half a day in classrooms and the rest of the day working at businesses in the community for credits and a paycheck.   When I attended Waynesboro High School (class of '72) in Waynesboro, VA, the school was very proud that they had been one of the innovators of Distributive Education during the Great Depression.

Not to diminish your success in the Job Corps program, but our Federal Government has no place trying to usurp obligations or responsibilities of a community, or at the most the States.

16 posted on 05/30/2025 12:58:10 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Lurker

Hear, hear!!!


17 posted on 05/30/2025 1:02:20 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister

My High School had a Vocational Education cooperative with several other districts. Auto shop, wood shop, electrical training, plumbing, beauty school for the girls, and they had a low power FM radio station and a TV production facility.

Half days at “regular” school and a half day there.

L


18 posted on 05/30/2025 1:07:27 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: 9YearLurker

The one near me is in very western North Carolina — I have no idea if most of the students are from the Cherokee Indian Reservation...if not it’s probably a long drive to their homes.

Maybe the idea is to keep the kids away from their gangs...not sure.


19 posted on 05/30/2025 1:17:19 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: TangoLimaSierra; Chode; sport; Steely Tom; SaveFerris; No name given

It’s a wonderful program!! I would hope and pray Trump would fix any problems with it

https://www.change.org/p/save-job-corps-american-work-force


20 posted on 05/30/2025 1:21:34 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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