Larry Parnass
Executive Editor at MassLive.com
Investigations editor, The Berkshire Eagle
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3 weeks ago |
masslive.com | Larry Parnass
CHICOPEE — Closing Job Corps programs like the one in Chicopee would be “irrational,” a Wednesday court filing said. Backers insist the Department of Labor’s case against the 60-year-old nationwide anti-poverty program is rife with falsified or misleading numbers. This week’s complaint persuaded a federal judge to block a shutdown for now, setting up another legal test of the Trump administration’s ability to write its own rules for executive branch agencies.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Larry Parnass
CHICOPEE — Closing Job Corps programs like the one in Chicopee would be “irrational,” a Wednesday court filing said. Backers insist the Department of Labor’s case against the 60-year-old nationwide anti-poverty program is rife with falsified or misleading numbers. This week’s complaint persuaded a federal judge to block a shutdown for now, setting up another legal test of the Trump administration’s ability to write its own rules for executive branch agencies.
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3 weeks ago |
masslive.com | Larry Parnass
Actions ordered by the Trump administration to shutter the Westover Job Corps program in Chicopee, and nearly a hundred similar job-training sites for disadvantaged young people, must stop immediately, a judge ruled Wednesday. The order by a U.S. District Court judge in New York City comes less than a week after the Department of Labor announced that 99 Job Corps programs across the U.S. would close.
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3 weeks ago |
masslive.com | Larry Parnass
CHICOPEE – As he layered on bricklaying skills, Justin Quiles felt he could see his earning prospects rising. Then word came last week that the Trump administration plans to close the Westover Job Corps and 98 other training centers by the end of the month. In time, as a fully trained bricklayer, Quiles expected to earn $45 an hour. Now, he plans to move home to Pittsfield and try to get a job at Walmart for $16 an hour. “Wow, it’s getting taken away from us,” he said Monday afternoon.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Larry Parnass
As he layered on bricklaying skills, Justin Quiles felt he could see his earning prospects rising. Then word came last week that the Trump administration plans to close the Westover Job Corps and 98 other training centers by the end of the month. In time, as a fully trained bricklayer, Quiles expected to earn $45 an hour. Now, he plans to move home to Pittsfield and try to get a job at Walmart for $16 an hour. “Wow, it’s getting taken away from us,” he said Monday afternoon.
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