When Savannah Higgins walked through the doors of the Old Dominion Job Corps Center in Monroe back in 2010, she was 19, ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and U.S. Rep. Josh Riley joined other elected representatives and local officials at the Oneonta Job Corps campus to speak out against the Trump administration’s attempt to ...

A federal program that helps low-income students in the Phoenix area with housing and a career path is getting new life.

Standing with students, graduates, and local employers, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing back against the Trump ...

SENATOR SCHUMER WAS ALSO IN MEDINA TODAY ADVOCATING FOR THE RESTORATION OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE IROQUOIS JOB CORPS CENTER.

The Oneonta Job Corps Center trains nearly 300 students every year in health, construction, and other fields that need ...

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joined Iroquois Job Corps students and staff to demands a halt to the elimination of Job Corps.

Six months later, this difference had decreased to 22 cents per hour. [18] Job Corps does not provide the skills and training to substantially raise the wages of participants.

President Trump recently called Job Corps a “failed experiment,” saying that the per-student cost each year — estimated at $80,000 annually — is not a good use of taxpayer money.

The federal government's Job Corps gives young people — between the ages of 16 and 24 — a second chance at a diploma and a trade. Esther Johnson, the first African-American woman to head the ...

Esther Johnson recently visited the Guthrie Job Corps Center in Oklahoma. It serves more than 40,000 young men and women in that state, as well as Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico.