“Report From Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn Criticizes Federal Job Training in Oklahoma”

Duplicative, wasteful federal job training programs in Oklahoma are a “convoluted mess” with little verifiable success that cost taxpayers $164 million a year, according to a new report from Sen. Tom Coburn. “Most of what we’re doing in job training in Oklahoma is employing people in job training,” he tells NewsOK.com.


Coburn said state officials aren’t to blame and that the problem is a patchwork of federal programs created by Congress for which there is no oversight. The senator commended the state’s CareerTech system, and his report praises the state Rehabilitation Services Department for a program helping people with disabilities find work. He said state governments could do a better job designing and monitoring their own job programs.

Read more at: newsok.com

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