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Over the last four decades, even as failed experiments and partisan disputes took the luster off the war on poverty, the Job Corps, the government?s main effort to give poorly educated youths a second chance at a diploma and a trade, was widely seen as one of the few success stories. But now, as the economy has turned against those with low skills and researchers have questioned the long-term impact of the Job Corps on the lives of its graduates, this remnant of the Great Society is facing an urgent need to reinvent itself.