Posted on 09/04/2018 1:29:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every election, politicians talk about the need for more job training programs. What they don't tell voters is that the government already spends billions on job training. Most of it is wasted.
Last week, The New York Times reported that one of the biggest and oldest federal job training programs — the $1.7 billion Job Corps — is failing those it's supposed to help.
The story points to an audit of the program by the Labor Department's Office of Inspector General, which found that despite its large budget, and the fact that 50,000 students enroll every year, the Job Corps "could not demonstrate beneficial job training outcomes."
The program, started in 1964, was supposed to build ladders out of poverty by training students in trades like welding, auto repair and electrical work. But the IG found that incomes among participants were no better than the general non-college educated population.
The IG also found that Job Corps officials couldn't account for 95% of the money that was supposedly going to job placement services.
This is bad enough. But Job Corps is just one of 47 federal job training programs scattered across 14 federal agencies that collectively cost taxpayers $18 billion. The Labor Dept. alone runs 20 of them. There's also a job training program run by the Environmental Protection Agency, another in the Department of Agriculture, and in the Department of the Interior.
When auditors at the Government Accountability Office looked into it, they found rampant duplication and overlap. There are five programs targeting youths, for example, eight for Native Americans and six for veterans.
But "little is known about the effectiveness of the employment and training programs," the GAO found. That's because only five of the 47 federal programs had done impact studies.
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I was good friends with a corporate HR dude who told me the “jobs” programs were so full of redtape, that their 600 person firm couldn’t use ‘em.
They had plenty of entry level jobs, but the rules & regulations for a “training” were gobbledygook.
Silly. These programs are not designed to connect workers with jobs.
Federal jobs training programs designed to hire thousands of federal training workers, administrators, and assorted cube-dwellers. They accomplish nothing, but they vote democrat.
Job Corps is a WASTE of money. I worked as a JC contractor back in 1970’s for one summer. NOTHING was accomplished. Corpsmen learned nothing and big Federal contractors made millions.
A Benny Hill skit - Sign on building said: MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS - guy was walking by with a sign - NO HE Doesn’t
The purpose is NOT to create jobs, but to destroy jobs, and promote government as the job-giver, rather than normal businesses.
It’s their way of making this country more communist.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a government policy can’t make worse than it was to start with..............
I was IN the Youth Conservation Corps as a late teen, twice, but that was nothing like Job Corps, nor was it intended to be. At least at our “camp”, “days” we worked hard and sweated a lot. Evenings we cleaned up, ate, and maybe had a little fun. We had great cooks too, and ate accordingly. Despite the work & sweat, a few of the girls were appalled when they got to a full length mirror when we went to town one night. :-)
We had minimal contact with Job Corps, but one evening some Job Corps guys who had formed a band came over and played for us. They weren’t bad: The guitarist in particular could play Hendricks dang well. But, I suspect he had that talent B4 his Job Corps stint.
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