Saturday, April 16, 2011

Job training programs cut in budget deal - The Washington Post

“Are job training programs a good thing? Yes. Is it God’s gift to workers? No,” said Gordon Lafer, a Democrat who is a professor at the University of Oregon and author of a book, “The Job Training Charade.” “Much more important than training is creating jobs.”

difficult to measure their[government paid job training programs] effectiveness because it requires tracking over long periods of time and sophisticated analysis to determine what role the job training had in students getting jobs and what role other factors, such as innate intelligence, have.

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