Jeff Duncan: “the House will soon approve more than $1 billion and a big increase for one of the most wasteful, least effective…”

“the House will soon approve more than $1 billion and a big increase for one of the most wasteful, least effective organizations in the entire Federal Government. This organization is the Job Corps, and it is presently spending more than $25,000 per year per Job Corps student. Yet the GAO has confirmed that very few Job Corps students, only about 4 percent, end up in jobs for which they were trained. For this $25,000 per year per student, we could give each of these young people a $1,000 a month allowance, send them to some expensive private school and still save money. They would probably think they had almost gone to heaven. This money will be approved because there are more than 110 Job Corps centers spread politically all over the country, and because most people mistakenly assume that this money is going to underprivileged young people. Yet the kids are not getting this money. The only ones really benefiting are wealthy government contractors and the bureaucrats who are running the program.”