In May, students at Charleston Job Corps Center were told their facility would be closing on June 30 as part of cuts by the U.S. Department of Labor. Job Corps offers free room, board and vocational training to low-income youth ages 16-24.

Students scrambled to try to finish their courses and make a plan for the future. Education

'Nowhere else to go': Charleston Job Corps affected by nationwide pause in operations

By Ashley Perham aperham@hdmediallc.com

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Jake McCune, 19, had been at the facility on 1000 Curtis Price Way for about five months in the facilities maintenance program. The announcement made things a “little bit rocky for me,” he said.

McCune, of Cross Lanes, had come to CJCC after leaving the U.S. Army. He didn’t want to go back to living with his parents.

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