Idaho’s Worker Training Program Is Effective Less Than Half Of The Time

Meridian-based Western States Equipment uses training dollars in part to pay for its own training school.

The state-sponsored program to train workers who are in danger of being laid-off is successful less than half the time. That’s according to a report released by the Idaho Department of Labor, the agency that oversees the workforce development training fund.

By Emilie Ritter Saunders

Full Story: http://stateimpact.npr.org/idaho/2012/10/16/idahos-worker-training-program-is-effective-less-than-half-of-the-time/