Steve Cohen

05/30/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/30/2025 13:30

Congressman Cohen Expresses Dismay at the Department of Labor’s Summarily Ending Memphis Job Corps Center Programs

MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), an avid supporter of the Benjamin L. Hooks Job Corps Center on McAlister, and a staunch supporter of federal job training nationwide, learned of the announced pause placed on such programs by the Trump Department of Labor today and made the following statement:

"I find it difficult to express my dismay at the Ben Hooks Job Center being closed summarily and seeing the students sent home without notice. If there was a problem at the center, or at the centers like it nationally, the Department should have attempted to fix them but, instead of working with the contractors and helping students, they've just decided to send the students home. The Department of Labor apparently has no plans for an improved product or a new approach. This careless approach will upset the lives of too many ambitious members of a future workforce, and should be condemned. DOGE had recommendations for the Department of Labor and I suspect this is a product of its chainsaw work.

"The Job Corps was a forward-thinking program of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society which President Trump would like to dismantle, as he is attempting to do with cuts to Medicaid and Medicare."

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