Labor Department Appeals Second Order Freezing Job Corps Cuts

The US Labor Department asked another federal appeals court for the green light to continue shuttering the Job Corps training program for low-income young adults.

Attorneys for the government filed an appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, requesting the panel reverse a preliminary injunction that halted the DOL from pausing Job Corps operations.

In July, a DC-based district judge granted the emergency relief, finding that the DOL’s move earlier this year to direct 99 Job Corps centers across the country to shut down was likely illegal.

The DOL announced at the end ...