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Across nine agencies, it all seems to be flushing money down the toilet. >> its exactly what you are doing. you cant teach what you dont know. >> explain that you cant take a group of people who have never actually employed anybody and doesnt know the resources in order to employ them and have them go teach and create these new training programs. they dont know what theyre teaching. they dont understand the content. a, they dont understand what small business people are actually looking forward ...

Theres a couple of things, if you look back at them, have not gone well. when you do what bill clinton did to welfare, turn it over to the states, turn it into a block grant, give the states a fixed sum year after year and say, good luck, deal with it, even if we hit a recession. it works pretty well. it worked better than people thought it would when the economy was booming in the 90s. when we hit the recession and the great recession were coming out of now, welfare performed terribly and reall...

Gone well. when you do what bill clinton did to welfare, turn it over to the states, turn it into a block grant, give the states a fixed sum year after year and say, good luck, deal with it, even if we hit a recession. it works pretty well. it worked better than people thought it would when the economy was booming in the 90s. when we hit the recession and the great recession were coming out of now, welfare performed terribly and really didnt provide a safety net at all. when you take the food st...

Thought it would when the economy was booming in the 90s. when we hit the recession and the great recession were coming out of now, welfare performed terribly and really didnt provide a safety net at all. when you take the food stamps and training programs and all the other benefits in the safety net, you will lose their counter cyclicality. you will lose the ability to catch people when the economy stumbles. you might get savings but thats precisely the type of gutting of government we need if ...

140 mail processing centers within the next year. a lot of people will lose their jobs as the postal service gets smaller but tonight, we learned there are plenty of government programs ready to help laid off workers. in fact, correspondent doug mcelway tells us some people think there are far too many. >> a study commissioned by senator tom coburn is casting doubt on whether the $18 million investment in federal jobs training programs is paying off. >> the vast majority of money we spend in job...

For job training to the tune of more than $14 billion? now there are a bunch of new studies finding some problems with that job training effort. doug mckelway is live in washington with more context on this. doug? >> reporter: thats right, jenna. gao reports from as early as 1990s and again in 2000 and 2003, there was tremendous duplication and overlap and general ineffectiveness of federal job training programs. again last year the department of labor study found benefits of job training progra...

Office getting a crisis like this one. the other rule is the longer a party is in power, the more the appetite builds to throw them out. it was 12 years of republican rule, its only been four years at this point. we have not tested a tichgs like this before and i dont know where it will go. >> today willard was in north carolina and he gave his supporters a good look at what his priorities would be. watch this and give your ref action. >> one of the first things he did was say that all of the fe...

The training programs are part of the agriculture departments push to attract 100,000 new farmers over the next few years. nbcs francis koe reports. >> reporter: joe roland wrote this letter when he was 10 explaining why he wanted to be a farmer. >> you make your own schedule. you dont have to dress up. and you get to work with crops and animals. >> reporter: now hes left a corporate job and is making his dream come true with a program called incubator farming. this farm in concord, north caroli...

They have invested in education and training programs for employee where is their job placement rate is 90%. the next day, governor romney stopped by the national plant in loraine, ohio. the national plant was toured by then candidate obama in february of 2008. it closed in june of 2008. the industry saw a lot of town turn and its eventual shutting of the doors. we can point a lot ofç finkegef who is responsible. it started before president obama took office. were seeing a shattering inventory...

Job training for two million workers and the president has tried this before. he spent half a billion in stimulus to train 125,000 green energy workers but three years in and only 8,000 folks have actually been placed in green jobs. so, do the job training programs work? former g.o.p. presidential candidate herman cain is here to weigh in on that. that is the question, leadership, do job training programs given by the government work? >>guest: if we had jobs they would. they are working on the w...