Job Corps center closure decision reversed

Montana’s governor and members of Congress Wednesday praised the Trump Administration reversing its decision to close nine Job Corps training centers, including in Anaconda, and to put operations of 16 others, including at Trapper Creek in Montana, under new contractors.

Gov. Steve Bullock and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., questioned why the change ever had been proposed.

U.S. Department of Labor announced May 24 it was taking over Job Corps, created in 1964 as a no-cost education and vocational training program, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which had administered the program th...