The termination of the program will end education, housing, and job training for tens of thousands of young people in low-income households.

F or decades, the Job Corps program served as the anchor for young adults seeking to transition into the workforce. But now, the Department of Labor delivered devastating news tha

The high school graduation ceremony June 3 at Sierra Nevada Job Corps was bittersweet. It might be the last one ever after the Trump administration recently ordered all funding be ended for the federal Job Corps program. It educates and trains at-risk youth in vocational trades such as construction, nursing and auto mechanics.

Following the Trump administration’s announcement that they are looking to close all Job Corps center operations nationwide, which would include in Cassadaga, the staff at Cassadaga Job Corps Center are calling on federal leaders to stand up for their communities and constituents and stop the closing.

Over a hundred destitute SF trainees will be abruptly out on the street if a Trump elimination of the 61-year-old vocational program holds.

As supporters fight to save the program, they are pointing to statistical errors the Department of Labor made in building a case to ax the program.

City and state leaders are slamming the Trump administration for cutting funding to Job Corps Centers, a program they call vital to New Orleans. As the future of the program lingers in limbo, they are also trying to find ways to keep the doors open.