By Liam Niemeyer

Kentucky Lantern

As torrential rains inundated Kentucky in April, Union County Judge-Executive Adam O’Nan needed labor to fill and distribute sandbags to protect homes and businesses from flooding.

After a phone call, local students from the Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center stepped up to the task.

“They loaded those bags for them and were a tremendous help,” O’Nan said.

Now the hundreds of students and employees at the center in Union County will be scattering to uncertain futures after the Trump administration on May 29 announced that it would “pause” Job Corps operations across the country.

O’Nan, a Republican, said that would be a loss for his county.

“It really is difficult to measure the value because we’re just so used to them being around, and not that

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