$1.7 Billion Federal Job Training Program Is ‘Failing the Students’
“This is not what the founders of a flagship federal program with a $1.7 billion annual budget — an iconic Great Society program meant to prepare impoverished young people for the work force — had in mind. Started in 1964 by R. Sargent Shriver, President John F. Kennedy’s brother-in-law, as a ladder out of hopelessness, Job Corps today has become a 20th-century holdover incapable of meeting the demands of a national shortage of job-ready workers.”