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The Job Corps program is a federally funded residential career training and education program that is often popular with unions and centered around low-income young adults. The report found that the average graduation rate for the program is only 32 percent. After graduating from the program, participants only earned $16,000 annually, which is barely above the poverty line. More so, the program often suffers from safety issues, as there were 14,913 incident reports in 2023, even though there were only 25,000 participants. The program also costs the American taxpayer $1.7 billion annually; the Job Corps Transparency Report has suggested the cost per student amounts to $80,000, which is $20,000 more than Harvard University’s annual tuition. The average total cost per graduate is $187,000, which exceeds the average cost of a four-year college at $153,000. Given that one third of participants graduate from the program, this shows little efficacity from the money spent for the program.

In other words, it was a lot like college...