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

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.

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

She briefly put her son in foster care with his godparents so she could complete Job Corps, a program that provides education and vocational training.

From Seattle Times