Autumn Rose, a 16-year-old homeless girl, saw her life improve after joining the Seamanship program at the Tongue Point Job Corps Center in Oregon. However, her stability is threatened by the Trump administration's recent announcement to shut down Job Corps programs across the nation. Alongside 300 other vulnerable students, she faces displacement in just eight days, which forces her back onto the streets, highlighting the impact of political decisions on at-risk youth in rural communities with historical ties to labor movements and support for Trump.
"I don't want to do that particularly," she said, in a glum adolescent understatement.
This program termination is targeting young workers-in-training like Rose in the struggling rural communities that have furnished robust grassroots support for Trump and the MAGA movement over the past decade.
Rose's story is wearily familiar to an American public that's seen the Trump administration careen from one callous and cruel shutdown operation to another on a near-daily basis.
The Tongue Point facility helped prepare people to work for area shipping and fishery companies as well as in service jobs.
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