Yet another statist scam: Audit finds bloated budget for green jobs training despite lack of open positions

A federal audit shows that nearly a half-billion dollars in government funds was spent on training workers for so-called “green jobs.” The only problem is that not enough positions in the growing industry exist.

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Yet another statist scam: Audit finds bloated budget for green jobs training despite lack of open positions Solyndra%20empty%20for%20auction%2010

The findings -- released in a June report by the Government Accountability Office -- showed that only 55 percent of those trained were able to place in a new job, many of which were not technically green jobs. The $501 million in funding came from the 2009 stimulus law. The report also uncovered that the Department of Labor created a framework that led grantees to broadly interpret the program’s definition to include any job “that could be linked, directly or indirectly, to a beneficial outcome” which led to the gap between training programs and available green industry jobs.

“Our report suggests that the department identifies the lessons learned,” Andrew Sherrill, a spokesperson for the GAO, told FoxNews.com. “A lot of these programs were created before there were clear job definitions for the industry."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/04/audit-finds-bloated-budget-for-green-jobs-training-despite-lack-open-positions/

Yet another statist scam: Audit finds bloated budget for green jobs training despite lack of open positions

Yet another statist scam: Audit finds bloated budget for green jobs training despite lack of open positions

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