Last week, 375 of 390 students enrolled in a federally funded Job Corps program were living on a job training campus at San Francisco’s Treasure Island. By Thursday, just 100 students remained after being suddenly informed the school would be closing.

The Treasure Island Job Corps Center is part of a national program established in 1964 to support low-income youth with housing, education, and job training. On May 29, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a phased pause of operations at all Job Corps centers by June 30, citing severe financial and safety concerns.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.