Operations at the privately contracted Job Corps center in Guthrie must be paused by June 30, according to a news release from the Department of Labor.

The site is one of 99 locations across the country impacted. Cherokee Nation Chief, Chuck Hoskin Jr., also released a statement identifying the location it operates in Tahlequah as also being part of the list of shuttered locations.

“We really felt like we had found a spot for my son in Guthrie Job Corps,” said Holly Jameson-Birden, referring to her 17-year-old son who previously spent time in the state’s foster system. “And for the first time, he was not a child in crisis. But, a young man. He became a young man ready to navigate and to start planning his own future.”

Jameson-Birden said her son called her Friday morning to share the ne

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