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 comes after the work transparency report was collected and published in April, and found that the program’s average graduation rate was only 32%.
Former representative Lori Chavez-Deremer, United States Labor Secretary, United States President Donald Trump, Center, during a confirmation audience of the Senate Health, Education, Work and Pensions Committee in Washington, DC, USA, on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. (Allison Robbert/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
The report states that the average total for graduate cost ranges from 155,600 to $ 187,653. The average cost of a four -year university in the United States is $ 153,080, according to the 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 Work Corps program, and the security of participants is “often at risk”.
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 the Job Corp work centers operated across the country, initiating an orderly transition for local students, staff and communities.
Department of the Labor Building (Getty)
Currently, there are 123 working centers throughout the United States. 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 run by USDA 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 body of jobs cost taxpayers $ 1.7 billion during 2025 financial year.
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.
Dol officials project that the 2025 program would grow up to $ 213 million.
“The program has been in a financial crisis for years, creating a constant uncertainty for participants and administrators,” said a mourning officer in 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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