Job Corps

[job]

noun

U.S. Government.

1. an organization within the Department of Labor that operates rural conservation camps and urban training centers for poor youths.

Job Corps

/ dʒɒb /

noun

1. a Federal organization established in 1964 to train unemployed youths in order to make it easier for them to find work

Example Sentences

He had applied to Job Corps, a federally funded career training program for lower-income teenagers and young adults.

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Another is to complete one semester of a career technical education course with a C− or better and also complete a program affiliated with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Job Corps, YouthBuild or California Conservation Corps.

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Among the services to be eliminated would be the Job Corps, which assists low-income youth to complete their high school education and provides job training and placement.

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His mother, Nancy, convinced him to join the Job Corps aged 16.

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Not long afterward, he saw a TV commercial for the Job Corps and persuaded his mother to sign him up.

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