Exclusive: The Department of Labor suspends the operations of the body of work centers across the country after the revelations that the program, which costs taxpayers greater than $ 1.7 billion a year, no longer achieves their planned results and is jeopardizing students.
Job Corps was originally created to help young adults build a way to a better life through education and community. But Trump’s administration officials told Fox News Digital that an “in-depth fiscal analysis and a surprising number of serious incidents reports that the program do not help students achieve the planned results or keep them safe.”
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The decision to suspend the program occurs after the transparency report of the work body was collected and published in April, and found that the average graduation rate of the program was only 38.6%.
Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer told Fox News Digital that “an amazing number of serious incidents reports and our in-depth tax analysis reveal that the program no longer achieves the planned results that students deserve.” (Allison Robbert/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
The report states that the Costa program graduation rate up to $ 155,600 per student. The average cost of a four -year university education in the United States is $ 153,080, according to the United States Department of Labor.
In addition, once these students move on the program, the study found it largely hired in minimum wage positions, and participants win $ 16,695 on average after leaving the program.
Currently, there are approximately less than 25,000 students enrolled in the participants’ work and safety body program.
Officials said that there were 14,913 serious incidents reported by 2023. By 2023, 373 cases of inadequate sexual behavior and sexual assault were reported; 1,764 acts of violence were reported; 1,167 security or safety breaches were reported; 2,702 cases of drug use were reported; And 1,808 hospital visits were reported for students.
Trump administration officials told Fox News Digital that the Labor Department begins a phase pause in the operations of Job Corp Corp Corp centers throughout the country, starting an orderly transition for local students, staff and communities.
The United States Department of Labor suspends work centers throughout the country. (Getty)
Currently, there are 123 working centers throughout the United States and 99 of the centers are led by contractors administered by the Department of Labor.
One official said that these contracts would be terminated to pause. The remaining 24 centers are led by the United States Department of Agriculture and will not be affected by the suspension.
The pause of operations in all the centers of the work body operated by contractors will occur on June 30. During the transition, the Department of Labor will collaborate with the members of the State and Local Labor to help current students advance their training and connect them with opportunities for education and work.
Once the stage suspension has occurred, students will be connected to other resources and will be registered within the American work center closest to their home and the work exchange system in their domestic states.
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“Job Corps was created to help young adults build a way to a better life through education, training and community,” said Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer at Fox News Digital. “However, an amazing number of serious incidents reports and our in -depth fiscal analysis reveal that the program is no longer achieving the planned results that students deserve.”
Chavez-Deremer added: “We are committed to ensuring that all participants are supported in this transition and are related to the resources they need to succeed as we evaluate the possibilities of the program.”
The work body will cost taxpayers $ 1.7 billion during the year 2025.
Trump administration officials told Fox News Digital that the Labor Department, led by Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer, begins a pause per phase in the operations of the operated contractor Job Corp Centers across the country. (Annabelle Gordon/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
The program began in 1964 as part of former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty under the 1964 Economic Opportunities Law.The program aimed to give young people with low revenue from academic, professional and social skills in a residential environment.
For the 2024 program, Job Corps operated with a deficit of $ 140 million, demanding centers to pay to save about $ 119 million to reach the end of this year.
Officials of the Labor Department project that the program of 2025 the deficit would grow to $ 213 million.
“The program has been in a financial crisis for years, creating constant uncertainty for participants and administrators,” said an official of the Labor Department at Fox News Digital.
The officer emphasized, however, that the Labor Department “does not eliminate the work body” and emphasized that only Congress has this authority.
In December 2024, the Department of Labor of the Administration of Biden instituted a similar pause in operations in two of the centers of the work body, in the midst of the concerns of problems and the increase in the costs of the program.
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Officials said that at this time, the labor body program is financially underwater and the funds appropriate for the Congress for the year will not cover the costs of operations for the remaining year.
Officials said that the pause would allow the Department to evaluate the alignment of the program with the “priorities of the Trump Administration’s workforce, the proposed budget framework and the general vision to build a modern and effective labor development program for young people in America”.
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