Here’s how the program called GEORGIAWORK$ works:
The person on unemployment is sent to *work* for an employer and to learn a new job skill.
Employer doesn’t have to pay person so takes on half dozen employees and schedules them for 24 hrs each to train them.
Person goes in and is *trained* for 24 hrs and gets check plus unemployment from State of Georgia.
Back story...employer now has free labor and looks around and sees that his regular employees now are no longer needed so begins to cut or eliminate their hours...
Employer has unending supply of free labor and sees that he is now increasing his profit margin by *training* all these new folks...employer now has incentive to further cut his payroll costs so further cuts hours of regular employees...
Result: everyone who participates in this program now owes loyalty to the government who is paying them...
That sounds like a disaster...
That being said the current low enrollment in the Georgia program might it self be useful if the same were applied helping to cripple the existing Federal unemployment program.
That crippling of an existing Federal program in itself would be worth wile if it weren’t likely to actually hurt the existing employed population.