More than three years after the 2009 stimulus law was enacted,
President Barack Obama's $500 million green jobs program is still
falling far short of its goals, the Labor Department's inspector general
concludes.
An audit found that as of last June 30, a total of more than 81,000 workers and unemployed job seekers had completed training under the program, at a cost of about $328 million. But auditors found that only 38 percent, some 30,857, had gotten new jobs or kept jobs with their employers.
Of those workers, the 97 training programs that got money from the program could only document 11,613 who had held those jobs for six months or more, a rate of just 16 percent compared to the more than 71,000 the government expected would keep the jobs that long.
The statistics were even lower for eight programs auditors examined in greater detail. After getting more than $32 million, those programs were only able to place about 2,325 workers.
Those detailed reviews also found that none of 81 employed workers who got training actually needed green skills to meet the program's goals of getting full-time jobs, keep their current jobs, or advance their career with the same employer.
In the audit report, Assistant Inspector General for Audit Elliot P. Lewis also noted that the eight programs failed to document between 24 percent and 44 percent of the results they reported to the government, complicating efforts to determine whether they met the goals of the program.
Read more: http://www.washingtonguardian.com/falling-short
An audit found that as of last June 30, a total of more than 81,000 workers and unemployed job seekers had completed training under the program, at a cost of about $328 million. But auditors found that only 38 percent, some 30,857, had gotten new jobs or kept jobs with their employers.
Of those workers, the 97 training programs that got money from the program could only document 11,613 who had held those jobs for six months or more, a rate of just 16 percent compared to the more than 71,000 the government expected would keep the jobs that long.
The statistics were even lower for eight programs auditors examined in greater detail. After getting more than $32 million, those programs were only able to place about 2,325 workers.
Those detailed reviews also found that none of 81 employed workers who got training actually needed green skills to meet the program's goals of getting full-time jobs, keep their current jobs, or advance their career with the same employer.
In the audit report, Assistant Inspector General for Audit Elliot P. Lewis also noted that the eight programs failed to document between 24 percent and 44 percent of the results they reported to the government, complicating efforts to determine whether they met the goals of the program.
Read more: http://www.washingtonguardian.com/falling-short
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