Tongue Point Job Corps celebrated its summer 2025 graduating class on Aug. 8, according to an announcement by Tongue Point staff. The announcement described this year’s class of 43 students as “a ...
DEVENS — Harrison was homeless and sleeping in his car before becoming a student at Shriver Job Corps, an opportunity that completely changed the trajectory of his life. The man was one of three ...
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) -Ahead of the Westover Job Corps graduation ceremony Monday afternoon, State Senator Jake Oliveira and his legislative colleagues held a press conference on the Trump ...
DEVENS — Two of Massachusetts congressional representatives called on their constituents to raise their voices to protest the scheduled shuttering of the federal Jobs Corps program that offers ...
State Sen. Jacob Oliveira joined two other western Massachusetts state politicians to decry the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the Westover Job Corps Center in Chicopee. The program helps ...
President Trump is trying to eliminate a national program that helps low-income young people finish their education and get job skills. It is called Job Corps. It enrolls about 25,000 people a year.
There are 99 program sites throughout the U.S. that train, for free, an average of 25,000 young adults a year. Massachusetts has three Job Corps sites in Grafton, Devens and Chicopee. The move to ...