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Virginia Foxx: We call them silos, where money is appropriated but people aren't able to take advantage of it even though they need it…

On the recordApril 8, 2013
We call them silos, where money is appropriated but people aren't able to take advantage of it even though they need it because they don't fit the exact criteria.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Foxx highlights the inefficiencies in government funding for job training.

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