SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. — The federal Job Corps program in Skagit County has operated for more than 40 years, helping more than 10,000 underprivileged youth build brighter futures.

Now, those futures are uncertain. For some, they may even include homelessness.

Students packed garbage bags with their belongings as they left the Sedro-Woolley Job Corps campus for the last time.

"It's just a shame that it closed down all of a sudden," said student Ethan Killingsworth.

Most of the 250 Job Corps students have until Friday to pick up their lives, their studies, their careers and find a new place to live.

The program provides troubled youth with career paths, housing, drug treatment, mental health counseling — and hope that advocates say would otherwise be lost.

Last Thursday, the Trump admini

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