Job Corps

American

[job] / dʒɒb /

noun

U.S. Government.

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

Job Corps British

/ dʒɒb /

noun

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

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Pike bounced from one school to another before joining Knoxville Job Corps aged 18 - what was meant to be a new start.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

She left home at 16 to join the federal Job Corps program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022

She went from Garfield High School and John Marshall High School to Seattle’s Job Corps program, where she originally planned to study culinary arts.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2020

He stayed at the Job Corps Center for himself.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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