Job Corps

[ job ]

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. an organization within the Department of Labor that operates rural conservation camps and urban training centers for poor youths.

Job Corps

/ dʒɒb /

noun

1. a Federal organization established in 1964 to train unemployed youths in order to make it easier for them to find work

Example Sentences

Ellis earned her job-training chops at the federal Department of Labor’s Job Corps program, whose historic mission is training people who don’t plan to go to college for jobs in the trades.

From Los Angeles Times

She briefly put her son in foster care with his godparents so she could complete Job Corps, a program that provides education and vocational training.

From Seattle Times

These initiatives constituted a bundle of domestic programs that included the Food Stamp Act, which made food aid permanent; the Economic Opportunity Act, which created Job Corps and Head Start; and the Social Security Amendments of 1965, which founded Medicare and Medicaid and expanded Social Security benefits.

From New York Times

She left home at 16 to join the federal Job Corps program.

From Los Angeles Times

The new job corps is part of $62 billion awarded to the Energy Department under the bipartisan infrastructure law signed last year by President Joe Biden.

From Seattle Times