Why slash programs that teach and lead students and are headed towards middle-class jobs? Now, the Trump administration is targeting one hugely important federal program, Job Corps, that provides free residential career training and education to low-income 16 to 24-year-olds. These at-risk young people can finish their GED or earn their high school diploma and receive training in such fields as construction, automotive services, culinary arts, and office administration. Unions are involved in many cases with helping the students enter the workforce via pre-apprenticeship partnerships with Job Corps, including the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, (IUPAT), the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, and with plasterers, masons, and carpenters unions. It seems obvious that unions, as well as low-income people, are yet again on the Trump administration’s hit list.
Read the full story by Anna Del Savio for Northwest Labor Press, posted here: https://nwlaborpress.org/2025/07/we-promised-them-a-future-job-corps-faces-massive-cuts-uprooting-students-and-staff/
