Northern Wisconsin Job Corps center spent $290,000 per graduate on ineffective training

A federal judge’s injunction Wednesday is blocking the Trump Administration from saving $1.7 billion annually and closing down Job Corps centers — including two in Wisconsin — that have an expensive and dismal record ostensibly training the young and disadvantaged for work.

The Milwaukee center on N. 60th St. had a 2023 budget of $9.2 million and more than 100 employees who served 224 Corps members at a cost of $40,969 for each enrollee.

There were only 63 graduates of the program that year, a 28 percent graduation rate, at a cost per graduate of $145,668.

The numbers for the Blackwell Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center in Laona, which is in Forest County, are even worse.

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