EXCLUSIVE: $2 Million Government Program Gets 17 People Jobs

By Heritage Foundation ——Bio and Archives--July 24, 2017

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A government-funded job training program that promised to turn hundreds of residents of Kentucky’s coal country into computer coders so far has spent $2 million to place 17 people in tech jobs and may have left others worse off, The Daily Signal has learned. The program, a private-public partnership between state and federal agencies and Interapt, a Louisville-based software development company, is a product of President Barack Obama’s TechHire Initiative of 2015. -- More...

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Heritage Foundation——Bio and Archives

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EXCLUSIVE: $2 Million Government Program Gets 17 People Jobs

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