Scenario: A state agency drafts rules in good faith to meet a legislated duty. Turns out, however, the rules they come up with don’t work as expected. The change gives…
Alex Adrianson of the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog draws attention to a government program that will likely get another lease on life from Congress despite a dismal track record.…
Nina Easton‘s latest column for Fortune magazine explains why she’s skeptical that a recently announced plan to overhaul federal job training programs will yield positive results. Washington’s job training is…
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn instituted the wasteful spending report that is now required from the GAO. Sadly, Sen, Coburn says it isn’t working and Congress has failed to act. According…
Count Michael Barone among those who have been less than inspired by President Obama’s latest rhetoric on the tepid American economy. Obama called for increasing the minimum wage. That always…
It’s a highly cherished fiction1 by policymakers that they are the ones who create the jobs, not the millions of individual entrepreneurs and small-business owners making unobserved individual hires looking…
Chris Edwards tells us the updated DownsizingGovernment.org features “essays on unemployment insurance, job training programs, labor union laws, and trade adjustment assistance.”
AB Tech is doing a good job of training students for the jobs of tomorrow. Their latest catalog features a new Sustainability Technologies Degree with training from the Global Institute…
The federal government, through the US Department of Labor, is awarding Native Americans, particularly those who are at-risk, $67 million in economic incentives for job training services. Government is not…
Today’s Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Karen McMahan’s report on the Perdue administration’s new worker training initiative. John Hood’s Daily Journal offers more sobering statistics associated with “bailout nation.”
State government handed out $1 million in federal grants to 52 companies chosen from among 55 proposals submitted by 20 Area Workforce Development Boards. Private companies, government money, maybe Jon…