Shaheen Sponsors Another Wasteful Job Training Program

“Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Thad Cochran of Mississippi have introduced legislation they say will help unemployed people find and keep jobs by expanding on-the-job training programs.

Under such programs, employers agree to hire workers that need training in exchange for a training subsidy. Shaheen, a Democrat, and Cochran, a Republican, say the programs have a good track record but are highly underutilized.”

Currently NH has something in place thanks to the Federal Government called the Workforce Investment Act, the brainchild of Robert Reich in the 1990s, which is supposed to subsidize schools to train and retrain people to re-enter the workforce but have failed to live up to that promise. Numerous scandals surrounding the WIA have not been resolved and the bureaucracy is still in place, still playing favorites to the businesses that prey on the benefits of this program.

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