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24-year-old Kevin Epperson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is learning electrical wiring at the Potomac Job Corps training center in Washington, DC, March 21, 2010. Frustrated by a slow job market, Epperson and other young workers across the country fueled an eight percent spike in applications to Job Corps, a federal vocational training program for low-income 16- to 24-year-olds. Nearly 1.3 million teens and young adults have left the labor force since the recession began in December 2007. (Pete Marovich/MCT)
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The main student lounge in one of the two new dormitories that opened in 2009 at the Potomac Job Corps Center. The new housing accommodates 272 students. The Potomac Job Corps Center located in Washington, D.C., is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. (Pete Marovich/MCT)
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Inside one of the women's dorm rooms in one of the two new dormitories that opened in 2009 at the Potomac Job Corps Center. The new housing accommodates 272 students. The Potomac Job Corps Center located in Washington, D.C., is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training. (Pete Marovich/MCT)
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24-year-old Kevin Epperson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is learning electrical wiring at the Potomac Job Corps training center in Washington, DC, March 21, 2010. Frustrated by a slow job market, Epperson and other young workers across the country fueled an eight percent spike in applications to Job Corps, a federal vocational training program for low-income 16- to 24-year-olds. Nearly 1.3 million teens and young adults have left the labor force since the recession began in December 2007. (Pete Marovich/MCT)
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