A federal job training program that has helped thousands of young people is at risk of suspension due to a significant budget shortfall.

The Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos is one of 99 nationwide suddenly shuttered after a Trump administration decision to cut potential waste and fraud. The largest free residential education and job training program for low-income Americans is basically ceasing after six decades.

Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra posted to Facebook on May 30 that Gary Job Corps, which opened in 1965, would cease operations by the end of June. The program offered free education and vocational training to hundreds of Central Texans.

Today at the the David Carrasco Job Corps Center in El Paso, Workforce Solutions Borderplex held a Career & Resource Event. It took place today, June 6th, from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM at Job Corps, 11155 Gateway Blvd W,

The pause of operations at all contractor-operated Job Corps centers will occur by June 30, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Job Corps training program for teens and young adults in Clearfield — open since 1966 — is one of 99 around the country to be shuttered by the Trump administration.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s plan to “pause” 99 Job Corps centers across the nation may cost students in El Paso not only their access to formal education,

The student indicated that leadership at the campus was doing their best to make sure students had a place to go.