Nearly 200 House members signed onto a bipartisan letter this week to express support for Job Corps after the Labor Department (DOL) recently announced it would soon be pausing operations at centers nationwide.

In the letter to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the lawmakers express support “for the continuation of the Job Corps program,” while noting it remains funded through government funding legislation that passed earlier this year.

“Nearly 20,000 young people utilize Job Corps to learn skills for in-demand vocational and technical job training,” the letter said. “Job Corps is one of the few national programs that specifically targets the 16-24-year-old population that is neither working, nor in school, and provides them with a direct pathway into employment openings in industrie

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