Federal Judge Puts Freeze on DOL Termination of Job Corps (1)

The Trump administration is temporarily barred from shutting down the Job Corps training program, preventing as many as 25,000 young adult students from being displaced, a federal judge ruled.

Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a temporary restraining order to a coalition of Jobs Corps providers, stopping the US Department of Labor from implementing the elimination of the program. Carter didn’t explain his reasoning, but said that all Job Corps operators and staff are enjoined from cutting the program absent “Congressional authorization.”

That order includes acting on any ...