President Donald Trump‘s administration issued a “phased pause in operations” for Job Corps centers across the United States.
Job Corps operates as a federally funded educational and career training program for low-income Americans aged 16 to 24. The centers have been instrumental in helping many Americans learn job skills and enter careers in construction, welding, culinary arts and more. All 99 centers have until the end of the month to close down.
Why It Matters
The Trump administration has made numerous cuts to federal agencies, including the Department of Labor and the Department of Education, to curb what it sees as waste and fraud.
Without the Job Corps locations in operation, tens of thousands of students attending the program might not be able to graduate, and fewer low-income Americans would be able to enter different industries.
What Is Job Corps?
The Job Corps program, originally established in 1964 as a free service for low-income Americans, has been paused as Trump seeks to meet his budget proposal goals.
Which Locations Are Closing? State-by-State List
The full list of Job Corps offices closing is as follows:
Washington
- Cascades
- Curlew
- Fort Simcoe
- Columbia Basin
Oregon
- Tongue Point
- Springdale
- Timber Lake
- Angell
- Wolf Creek
California
- Sacramento
- Treasure Island
- San Jose
- Los Angeles
- Inland Empire
- Long Beach
- San Diego
Idaho
- Centennial
Nevada
- Sierra Nevada
Arizona
- Phoenix
- Fred G. Acosta
Alaska
- Alaska
Hawaii
- Hawaii
- Maui
Montana
- Kicking Horse
- Anaconda
- Trapper Creek
Wyoming
- Wind River
Colorado
- Collbran
New Mexico
- Albuquerque
- Roswell
North Dakota
- Quentin N Burdick
South Dakota
- Boxelder
Nebraska
- Pine Ridge
Kansas
- Flint Hills
Oklahoma
- Tulsa
- Talking Leaves
- Guthrie
Texas
- North Texas
- Gary
- Laredo
- David L. Carrasco
Minnesota
- Hubert H Humphrey
Iowa
- Denison
- Ottumwa
Missouri
- Excelsior Springs
- St. Louis
- Mingo
Arkansas
- Little Rock
- Cass
Louisiana
- Shreveport
- Carville
- New Orleans
Wisconsin
- Blackwell
- Milwaukee
Illinois
- Paul Simon Chicago
- Jollet
Tennessee
- Dr. Benjamin L Hooks
- Jacobs Creek
Mississippi
- Mississippi
- Finch Henry
- Gulfport
Michigan
- Flint/Genesee
- Detroit
Indiana
- IndyPendance
- Atterbury
Kentucky
- Whitney M Young
- Muhlenburg
- Great Onyn
- Pine Knot
- Frenchburg
- Carl D Perkins
Alabama
- Gadsden
- Montgomery
Ohio
- Cleveland
- Dayton
- Cincinnati
West Virginia
- Harpers Ferry
- Charleston
Maine
- Penobscot
- Loring
Vermont
- Northlands
New Hampshire
- New Hampshire
Rhode Island
- Exeter
Massachusetts
- Shriver
- Grafton
Connecticut
- Hartford
- New Haven
New York
- Glenmont
- Oneonta
- Westover
- Irequois
- Delaware Valley
- South Bronx
- Brooklyn
New Jersey
- Edison
Pennsylvania
- Red Rock
- Keystone
- Philadelphia
- Pittsburgh
Maryland
- Woodland
- Woodstock
Delaware
- Wilmington
Virginia
- Old Dominion
- Blue Ridge
- Flatwoods
North Carolina
- Kittrell
- Oconaluftee
- Schenck
- Lyndon B Johnson
South Carolina
- Bamberg
Georgia
- Atlanta
- Brunswick
- Turner
Alabama
- Gadsden
- Montgomery
Florida
- Jacksonville
- Pinellas Valley
- Miami
Why Is Job Corps Shutting Down?
The Job Corps locations are all closing after years of financial trouble, according to the Department of Labor.
“The Job Corps program has faced significant financial challenges under its current operating structure,” the DOL said in a statement.
In 2024, the program had a $140 million deficit, with that number predicted to reach $213 million in 2025.
An internal review also found many reports of sexual assault, violence and drug use amongst the students enrolled in the program. To participate in the training, students were required to pass background checks and undergo drug testing; however, problems still arose at centers across the country.
“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,” U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement.
How Much Does Job Corps Cost?
Job Corps has historically been offered free of charge to eligible low-income students between the ages of 16 and 24.
“This is another example of this administration’s attack on the poor,” Drew Powers, the founder of Illinois-based Powers Financial Group, told Newsweek.
“It is dizzying to see proposed Medicaid legislation with more stringent work requirements while simultaneously cutting programs like the Job Corps, essentially taking away an outlet to obtain the education and training required to get said work.
What People Are Saying
Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin, told Newsweek: “The suspension of centers is the result of an internal overview of the current program, its successes, and its failures. It’s difficult to tell what the long-term effect will be, as it will more than likely vary per state and a location as to how much each population depending on these centers for services, but the move does reflect the administration’s continued push to restructure many nationwide programs it sees as not effectively being a good use of taxpayer funding.”
Drew Powers, the founder of Illinois-based Powers Financial Group, told Newsweek: “It just does not make sense to me. There are Job Corps sites in all 50 states, and election battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Florida are home to multiple Job Corps locations. There is already bipartisan pushback as representatives envision how this may affect their constituents and future elections.”
What Happens Next
All Job Corps centers have until June 30 to shut down their offices.
The closures could impact both current students on track to graduation and the job prospects for low-income Americans in these communities in the future.
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