Posted on 07/22/2017 11:24:57 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
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.
The job training program, budgeted for a total of $4.5 million, was supposed to last through 2019 and train up to 200 people from an economically depressed region of Kentucky for middle- to high-skill careers in information technology.
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“.. a product of President Barack Obama’s TechHire Initiative of 2015.”
A failed Obama program!
How many others? Solyndra? etc.
What a failure!!
awesome....
Wait! What?
It’s programming, not coding, and it’s not for everyone. Some have the aptitude, and most don’t. The left thinks that everyone has the ability, and that it’s bias that’s keeping certain people out of this.
Wrong.
Get your leftist head out of your leftist a$$.
Wanna bet that this “InterApt Tech” company is a deep-state Obola-fund-raiser donor?
Like Biden once said, we need women from the hood for IT professionals.
Obama regulations cut coal production and cost many jobs, so he starts a program that produces 17 jobs and probably thousands of welfare recipients...
That’s “fundamentally transforming” America, Obama style...
So true.
Yep, Interapt LLC was founded by Ankur Gopal.
sounds like thew Jobs program was for the owners of Interapt, no word on how many people they employed in this welfare scam.
O’bammy keeps failing and Trump keeps winning.
Bad as the Govt moving so many facilities to Eastern West Virginia.
Coast Guard, IRS are among those joining a VA Hospital in the Martinsburg ‘area’ and all the ‘jobs’ didn’t go to the locals, they went to the ‘newbies’ and the locals got stuck with gridlock, higher taxes, sewer and water problems, to accommodate the incoming flatlanders.
During the past couple of weeks, AARP has been running ads aimed at WV Senator Caputo in regards to the Health Care fiasco...
Nothing ‘wrong’ with that BUT the ads have been running in Metro Washington DC area....
Does that mean the the ONLY people working in WV are in the DC area and commuting?
I remember going to a “job fair” years back that you could tell got government funding. I think they got X amount of dollars for every resume they helped create, but never really helped anyone with job leads or training (besides suggesting college or a trade school - kinda’ a no-brainer for most people).
as opposed to 4.5 million to get 200 people jobs, which is waaaaaaay better.
This story is like the idea some genius had in our town; they would pick up the “homeless” panhandlers in a van, offer them snacks and water, and take them to the Career Center to fill out job applications.
The panhandlers here in our small city are seemingly at every intersection now, but most are NOT homeless, they are dropped off or drive there.
Amazingly, out of the dozens picked up, only ONE has accepted a job. The others cited various excuses why they couldn’t work an actual job, yet they can stand outside all day with a sign.
Nice. Let’s see, $2m by 17 jobs is an average income of $120k.
That’s how it works? Right? /s
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