PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) -- The Pinellas County Job Corps will host a job fair Wednesday to help its students and staff after the U.S. Department of Labor announced it would be pausing the Job Corps program nationwide.

Job Corps is a vocational trade school designed to help low-income students.

"This was my last chance to actually do something with my life so I kind of want to help save this place," said Skye Considine, a student at Job Corps.

Considine said she had about a year and a half left in her program at the Pinellas County location. Now, she and more than 100 other students have just days left before the campus closes down.

The Department of Labor Secretary said, "A startling number of serious incident reports and our in-depth fiscal analysis reveal the program is no longe

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