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Senators Press Labor Secretary on Job Corps Enrollment Pause and Proposed Elimination
Summary
Senators including Collins and Baldwin pressed Secretary Chavez de Reamer over the administration's decision to pause enrollment at two Maine Job Corps centers and a budget proposal that would eliminate Job Corps.
Senator Collins told the subcommittee that enrollment at Maine's two Job Corps centers, Loring and Penobscot, was abruptly halted and said those centers together serve nearly 500 students in Maine and employ 29 staff at Loring. "Job Corps literally saved her life," Collins said, describing a former student whose life changed after attending Job Corps in 2008.
Collins and other senators criticized the administration's fiscal year 2026 budget summary, which proposes eliminating Job Corps.…
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