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

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

Ellis earned her job-training chops at the federal Department of Labor’s Job Corps program, whose historic mission is training people who don’t plan to go to college for jobs in the trades.

From Los Angeles Times

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