Trump’s plan to shut Job Corps – key underprivileged training programme – blocked by federal judge: All you need to know

A US judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from shutting down Job Corps, a major residential job training program for low-income youth.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter in Manhattan said the abrupt shuttering of the 60-year-old program by the U.S. Department of Labor without authorization from Congress was likely illegal.

The ruling came in a lawsuit by the National Job Corps Association, a trade group for contractors who operate Job Corps sites, and some of its members. Carter issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Labor Department from ending the program pending the outcome of the lawsuit, extending an emergency ruling he issued earlier in June.