Trump Moves to Kill Job Corps, the 61-Year-Old Free Training Programme That Lifted 3 Million Young Americans Out of Poverty

Fonte: International Business Times

Job Corps, where low-income youth aged 16 to 24 receive free vocational training, education and housing, is now targeted for elimination under Trump's 2027 budget proposal. President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, released on 3 April, includes the full elimination of Job Corps — a federally funded programme that has provided free education and vocational training to low-income young Americans since 1964. The blueprint proposes cutting at least $2.