The big flaws in the federal job training program

The $3.1 billion federal program lured millions of jobless Americans into costly training courses that left many without new employment

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Many desperate out-of-work Americans assumed they could put their confidence — and their meager financial resources — into a jointly run federal-state operation designed to steer them toward new job opportunities and the training they would need to qualify.

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