This Administration, which lied about how this country needs more people going into trades..

Just eliminated a program that directly helped the most vulnerable of our youth get an education and an entrance into a trade.

They just eliminated JobCorps.

This is how I see it too:
Meidas_Charise Lee (@charise_lee) posted at 0:53 PM on Sun, Jun 01, 2025:
A ploy to boost recruitment into the military as well free labor in the private prison systems as these people become increasingly vulnerable, homeless, unemployed and desperate ‼️ https://t.co/sbw4eIfM3c
(https://x.com/charise_lee/status/1929234940501373040?t=hbBd7bTtmEcubuPAYtpk6Q&s=03)

There are so many local stories on this issue. How it will affect local areas. I just took this one as an example.

With federal cuts, Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps to close after 44 years
The U.S. Department of Labor announced last week it ended funding for more than 100 Job Corps sites nationwide
By Frederick Melo | fmelo@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
UPDATED: June 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM CDT

Eager to give a young person a shot at his profession and bring in some badly-needed talent, Dave Abbott reached out last year to the Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps Center in St. Paul in hopes of launching a “work-based learning” internship program. As a lead carpenter for a group of contractors, Abbott figured his company could train three or four young corps members per year, and hopefully hire some. A year of planning followed.

The first recruit recently “did two weeks with us, helped frame a garage up, and she absolutely crushed it,” said Abbott, a vice president with Terra Firma, a St. Paul-based contracting cooperative.

Then came word last week that the U.S. Department of Labor pulled funding for more than 100 Job Corps centers across the country. As a result, the Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps Center — which has operated from the former Bethel College campus across from the State Fairgrounds on Snelling Avenue since 1981 — will close on Tuesday, letting go 100 staff members and releasing more than 170 young people.

“I’m so upset about this, I can’t even tell you,” said Kaila Broad, business engagement specialist with the St. Paul site, on Monday. “Haven’t slept, haven’t eaten.”

U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said last week that a “phased pause in operations” is to take place by June 30, but the closures are rolling out in St. Paul and other locations virtually overnight.

“The Department of Labor press release says it’s ‘on pause,’ but our contracts have been terminated,” said center director Katie Kapaun, who has served with the center for 22 years.

Each year St. Paul’s Job Corps Center offered up to 264 young people ages 16 to 24 roughly two years of workforce training in any one of eight career paths as they worked toward their GED and vocational certificates. It also provided free housing for the low-income recruits, many of whom had landed there through diversion programs or were enrolled by their families.

Some members had previously been homeless.

“Some of them don’t know where they’re going to go, what they’re going to do,” Kapaun said. “Telling them on Friday morning was probably the hardest thing in my career that I’ve had to do.”

About a third of students with local families or other contacts departed almost immediately. Others who enrolled in the St. Paul center from other states or were previously homeless are scrambling for residences. Andrea Hobbs, 20, said her dreams of becoming a traveling nurse were dealt a major setback. She has no local family and was homeless before Job Corps.

This story is common. Repeat this story all over the country, and you can see the devastation happening to these young people. Folks on the right came up quick with the ‘ stat’ that the program only sees 38% of the people complete. Well, those are the numbers that were definitely affected during the COVID YEARS.
And, considering that the graduation rate of Community Colleges across the country is only around 38%, JobCorps was matching that. 38% of those young people on a positive route after completing the program. And, just because someone doesn’t complete the program, doesn’t mean that the program hasn’t planted seeds in those young people, and they will use what they learned in JobCorps to move forward in their lives.

Cutting this program is pure evil. It’s the domestic equivalent of shutting down USAID. Hurting the most vulnerable in our society. Young people who were dealt nothing but a bad hand. And, now, in a country that has one part of it always pointing at others to ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’, they are cutting a program that helped young people, with no other options, the ability to make some leather for some bootstraps.