A workforce development center in Addison County is expected to shut down this month following the U.S. Department of Labor's decision to suspend funding for the nationwide program that pays for it.

The Northlands Job Corps Center, located in Vergennes, is one of 99 contractor-run Job Corps centers nationwide. They provide education, skills training, housing, meals and health care to low-income students ages 16-24.

Student Contessa Galvez, 19, enrolled at Northlands Job Corps Center in April 2024 after she had to drop out of a university due to cost, because she doesn’t have family support.

“I wanted that college education, and it was great, because it was free here,” Galvez said of Northlands. “I was getting an associate's in IT, and hopefully after that, I was going to fund my way t

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