Job Corps Explained: Free Career Training, Housing, and Opportunities for Young Adults

Podcast: Dallas, Texas: What’s Good? Lessons from your Local Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners · Brianna Jovahn

Opublikowano: 2026-04-22

In this Wild Card Wednesday bonus episode of Dallas, Texas: What’s Good Podcast, we sit down with William Houston (Campus Director, North Texas Job Corps Center) and Nikki Carter (Work-Based Learning Specialist & Business Liaison) to break down one of the nation’s most powerful—yet underutilized—career pathways: Job Corps. Created in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, Job Corps is a free U.S. Department of Labor program designed to help young adults ages 16–24 gain the skills, certifications, and support needed to enter the workforce and build sustainable careers. This episode goes...