[DannyTN]

The solution is to fix the program, not cut off all aid.

What is being measured? Who is tracking how many people are placed? Who is putting emphasis on that number. Who is evaluating program managers by that number?

I agree it's a problem. But stings like this are exactly what needs to be done of all agencies. They should hire that guy with the video tape who uncovered medicare fraud and food stamp fraud and put him to work designing sting operations.

[Cicero]

Once politicians figured out that welfare creates dependency and hurts poor people, they (logically) assumed that employment services and job training would help.

I'm afraid not. As the article itself demonstrates, the real purpose of these "job centers" is to put people on welfare and to discourage them from finding work.

Just as the real purpose of government welfare is to create a large class of dependent people who will vote for you.

Why would the politicians who run the welfare system want to "fix" this?