Labor Department Asks Second Circuit to Clear Job Corps Closure

The Trump administration is seeking federal appeals court intervention to allow the US Labor Department to continue shutting down the Job Corps training program.

The agency filed an appeal Sept. 19 to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, requesting that it reverse a preliminary injunction that reinstated the program earlier this summer.

Judge Andrew L. Carter of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York blocked the Trump administration from continuing to close down the nationwide program that provides job training, housing, food, and stipends to low-income people across the country. Created in the ...