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… they’re not wrong though? Someone here [1] already linked to a WaPo article talking about Trumps efforts to kill it

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37167202

Despite some success, job corps have a violent history and poor track record and rampant corruption. Look it up, it's not hard to find. They don't have a very good reputation in the job employment market either. Locally, the factories teach employees welding as does the community college trade program, the latter is not free but very attainable for all ages. There are much better and more efficient ways to train youth than free tax dollars out of somebody elses pocket.

I never stated that job corps was the most efficient way to train youth. In fact, I never stated that I thought it was a worthy program at all. (I don't know enough about job corps to have an opinion worth sharing)

The parent comment strongly rejected the idea that republican presidents were unlikely to support job corps, and I responded by sharing an article about our most recent republican president's attempts to kill the program. It's not that controversial

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