Congressman Ed Whitfield today joined 70 other bipartisan Members of Congress in sending a letter to Acting Secretary of Labor, Seth Harris, to express their strong opposition to the department’s decision to eliminate 3,000 student slots and suspend student enrollment at Job Corps Centers across the nation.

The decision would affect roughly 650 student slots at the Earl C. Clements Job Corp facility Morganfield. 

This is third time in the past 12 months that the Department of Labor has suspended or cut student enrollment in the Job Corps program due to budget constraints.

The Department of Labor has not provided Congressional offices with the amount of money that will be saved by implementing these policies. 
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(01/25/2013/MF)