Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots

on the issues that shape our world. I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and host of the Lurie Daniel Favre show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like what you hear, baby, just keep it to yourself

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studio audience. Okay. So if you have been listening to my serious XM show or watch some of my YouTube live videos

recently, you probably are pretty familiar with the fact that I'm very upset about what's

happening with the Job Corps closures.

Now, for those of you who do not know, Job Corps is a federally funded educational and career

training program that was designed for low-income Americans between the ages of 16 and 24.

These are the centers that, frankly, have helped a whole lot of poor Americans learn basic

job skills. It allows them to enter into careers in fields like construction, welding,

the culinary arts, graphic

design, and so many others. And it's not a program that's necessarily a one-to-one replacement

for college, but it is a program for people for whom, frankly, college may not be an option

right now. I mean, it might be later, but in this particular moment in their life, it may not

be an option. It is for people for whom perhaps traditional education programs have not serviced them very well. And so they,

you know, not having a great relationship with education spaces may find that it's better for them

to go through a program like this. And it's great for people who quite frankly want to add to

their education by getting access to skills and

certificate programs that will give them entry into the trades. Unfortunately, what we learned

recently was that the Trump administration and the Republican Party have made massive cuts to a

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