Obama May Adopt Georgia Training Program Nationwide
President Barack Obama’s jobs-creation package will target the long-term unemployed with a jobs-training program pioneered in Georgia, the WSJ reports.
The Georgia program allows the unemployed to continue to receive their weekly unemployment checks, plus a small transportation stipend, while working and training at a company for eight weeks. When the time is up, the company can decide to hire the employee or not. If the employee isn’t hired, the company pays nothing.
Obama called it a “smart program” at a town hall meeting last week, the WSJ says.
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