How Government Does Business
Money that does not come out of the pocket of the person spending it spends so much easier.
From the WSJ:
In 2012 Senator Tom Coburn's office examined workforce training in Oklahoma and found that Job Corps spends $76,000 per participant to place youth in jobs that are often minimum-wage and don't require training. Culinary students have been put to work as funeral attendants, tour guides, baggage porters and telemarketers.
One of the primary benefits of the Job Corps program is that if you complete it, you receive a high school diploma. I can understand there being problems with placement because the student body of Job Corps tends to be comprised of a large number of people who were having a lot of trouble graduating from high school in the first place. Often, the issues are related to having spent time in juvenile detention. I'm certain after a few troublemakers get jobs in companies that contracted with the placement service, problems arose that include attendence, intoxication and criminal issues. After this happens a few times, those companies break off the affiliation. Thus, Job Corps is reduced to fulfilling its obligation to getting its participants off the street and into any kind of gainful employment, even if it is not in the area in which they trained.
Fayd at February 3, 2014 11:53 AM
I was able to learn how to cook in a family restaurant starting off as a dishwasher. Granted I became the night shift cook in a different restaurant than the one I trained in.
To be a funeral attendant is basically guiding a person to a seat and have a sober face in the presence of hysterics.
Baggage porters. Can you pick up a customers luggage and put it on a cart?
Telemarketers are already scum of the earth. So getting a job isn't that hard.
The problem with the Job Corps is that we are dumping 0ver $70K into a putting someone into a job that they can walk into Bob Evans and say I want to be a cook.
Jim P. at February 3, 2014 5:05 PM
Actually they are employing someone with a Masters in Social Work to guide someone into a training program instead of letting them walk into Bob Evans and saying they want to be a cook. Destroying ambition is expensive and not for amateurs.
MarkD at February 4, 2014 4:24 AM
✔ LOL!! ☺
Jim P. at February 4, 2014 6:14 AM
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