most of them would barely qualify as a horse holder, and there isn't a big call for horse holders now days...
Posted on 07/05/2009 7:52:46 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Tens of thousands of laid-off workers [...] have turned to retraining as a lifeline. Yet for all the popularity of these government-financed programs, there are questions about whether they actually work, even as President Obama’s stimulus plan directs $1.4 billion more to retraining and other services for people who have lost their jobs.
In Michigan, where the unemployment rate in May was 14.1 percent, the nation’s highest, 78,000 people are enrolled in the state’s No Worker Left Behind program and 7,800 are on the waiting list. At the Michigan Works job center here, where Mr. Hutchins applied for retraining money, thewait to attend an orientation session is up to two months.
Nonetheless, a little-noticed study the Labor Department released several months ago found that the benefits of the biggest federal job training program were “small or nonexistent” for laid-off workers. It showed little difference in earnings and the chances of being rehired between laid-off people who had been retrained and those who had not.
In interviews, the authors of the study and other economists cited several reasons that retraining might not be effective. Many workers who have lost their jobs are older and had spent their lives working in one industry. In need of a job right away, many pick relatively short training programs, which often have marginal benefits. Job retraining is also ineffective without job creation, a point made by several economists who have long cautioned against placing too much stock in it. Finally, workers trying to pick a new field cannot predict the future of the labor market, especially in a time of economic upheaval.
“I can’t tell you with any degree of certainty, and I’ve been doing it for 20 years, what the hot jobs are going to be,” said one of the author [...]
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The Government does little right. Who would hire a worker who went through Government “re-training?” They’d surely do their best to run your company into the ground.
to keep the unemployment as low as possible, the govt is hiring anybody off the street at staggering rates, of course, paying them with our tax money.
>> Yet for all the popularity of these government-financed programs, there are questions about whether they actually work, even as President Obama’s stimulus plan directs $1.4 billion more to retraining
Of course these programs work! Here’s a detailed roadmap of how the money waters the “green shoots of recovery”:
a) If you’s a big ‘Rat gangsta contributor, you work da machine and get your name on da list as a brotha what runs a retrainin’ thing... dig?
b) Da bling flows you way
c) You goes to fancy restaurants and spends da money... or gets yourse’f a new grille... or some wheels...
d) All dem bizness ownas what runs dem restaurants and dem car delas and such hires new workas.
There. See? Simple as ABC...
that is, “All ‘Bout Corruption”
The only ones benefitting from this retraining are the community colleges.
One word CETA.
The guy is clueless.
He’s going to be like someone trapped in quicksand and he sill drag us down with him.
Well written. Great post.
most of them would barely qualify as a horse holder, and there isn't a big call for horse holders now days...
And our children's tax money and our grand children's tax money and our great gran...................................
I knew a lady who enrolled in a job retraining program back during the Clinton years. It was very underwhelming, to hear her tell it. Very basic job training programs geared to entry-level positions. Certainly nothing satisfactory to someone coming from a skilled trades position or most white collar office jobs.
In all fairness, I don’t know if that’s the norm for these kinds of programs, or if the woman I knew had an atypical experience. Just sayin’ the one I do know about seemed to be basically worthless.
I didn’t realize working as a Walmart greeter required any re-training.
Retraining for what?
Obama and the democrats are intentionally, systematically annihilating the US economy, in order to grow the government.
I have just one thing to say about Obama's "green jobs": You want fries with that?
Pretty tough to do when you're completely out of money. When you leave you need a stake--a sum to pay for rent on a room or apartment, pay for food, transportation, utilities, and a phone while you look for work. If you're penniless because you've been out of work for months, where could you get that stake? Or afford even to travel to another state, like Texas? BTW, once you've lost your job and are in financial trouble you usually can't pass a credit check to rent a room or apartment.
The whole “green jobs” thing is such a crock. There are very few and I’ll be the Government needs to shell out mega $$ just to sustain one “green” job. But, hey, it sounds great as a sound byte to the Sheeple.
I do appreciate you pinging me to these posts but this is so wrong I refuse to answer. “My levee My dream” is an idiot. The people in-training will never surpass the 6.5 million fired. Obama is shrinking the economy by design. He is stopping progress. I’ll say it.. To Hell with that SOB.
Not in my mind. Really just make work/bailouts for the trainers. For the Students just more subsidized Unemployment. Gov’t contractors actually training people to fill nonexistent job openings.
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