Hear Me Out: Federal Job Training Doesn’t Work

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: get back to work. When your job becomes obsolete, is it the government’s job to teach you to do something else? That’s the theory behind federal workforce training programs – which have existed, in various forms, for a long time. The problem is that studies are starting to show that these programs don’t provide much of an edge to workers… and that the jobs they place for might not be good jobs. Kevin Carey of New America joins us to argue for a retooling of federal work training. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie. Want more Hear Me Out? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/hearmeoutplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Hedley. Federally funded job training is one of those ideas that sounds really great on paper.
0:08.0	It's helping workers gain new skills, keep up with the pace of technology and ultimately stay employed and remain
0:14.9	functioning members of the economy. In practice though, the benefit of these
0:19.1	programs is a little muddy. Workers who got trained through the 1998 Workforce Innovation and
0:24.3	Opportunity Act saw little if any growth in their wages and the in-demand jobs they
0:29.9	trained for aren't necessarily in demand because lots of people want them.
0:35.1	It's often poor-paying, grueling dead-end jobs that the government helps to fill.
0:40.3	All of this leads us to ask, federal job training work or should we reset our expectations?
0:47.0	What a lot of employers want is a steady supply of new workers who they don't have to pay very much and they want someone else to pay for the
0:54.8	training they don't want to have to like pay out of their own pocket to train their workers
0:58.1	they would rather the government do it for them.
1:00.1	Kevin Carey of New America joins me Me Out in just a moment.
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