WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate lawmakers are investigating a nearly $100 million shortfall at the federal Job Corps program that has prompted the Labor Department to freeze enrollment at all 125 job centers around the country.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has called on the agency’s inspector general to investigate “serious questions about the management by the department” that will prevent 30,000 disadvantaged and at-risk youth from getting job training this year.

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