USA Today Jan 31 ,2012
“One in 10 trainees placed in green jobs: GOP probing Obama’s $500 million program”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-01-30/obama-green-jobs-program-failure/52895630/1
House Republicans are expanding their probe into the Obama administration’s energy programs investigating $500 million in green job training grants that placed just 10% of trainees in jobs, according to a govt report.
The program’s goal was to train 124,893 people and put 79,854 in jobs. But 17 months later 52,762 were trained and 8,035 or roughly 1 in 10 had jobs according to the Dept of Labor’s inspector general.
Pres. Obama has made green jobs a cornerstone of his economic agenda. In his first 2012 campaign ad this month, he said clean energy industries created 2.7 million jobs and were “expanding rapidly”.
Citing what he calls “abysmal results” in the job training program, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Isa (R-Calif) is demanding answers about how the Dept of Labor awarded the grants, which were funded out of the 2009 economic stimulus law.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Jane Oates defends the initiative, that it was never designed to provide immediate results.
One group Issa singled out is the Pathstone Corp., a Rochester, NY, non-profit that spent $2.3 million of its $8 million grant and had trained 25 people- far short of its 660 goal, auditors found.
Pathstone said that by the time it won the grant, one employer in Scranton PA, stopped hiring after a moratorium on natural gas drilling and the funding constraints halted the city of Rochester’s abandoned-home-deconstruction program.
Common Sense Review
The misappropriation of funds… How is a organization can waste $2.3 million and train 25 people?... Oh I get it.. Pathstone’s mission statement states: PathStone promotes social justice through programs and advocacy…”
Oh I get it… Social Justice now equal misspent tax dollars…. Why do I feel like I am on the Titanic?
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