Wanna See Government Waste?

Well, here it is.

MacIver evaluates Tony Evers' 'education' accomplishments--which are not much at all.

In addition, they shine a light on the waste of funds Evers brags about.

...The [Evers] ad mentions $130 million funding for skills and technical training, likely referring to federally-funded grants the Evers administration has made.  A year ago, the governor announced he would begin distributing $20 million of Wisconsin’s federal pandemic dollars for employment and skills training through the Worker Advancement Initiative.  The Worker Advancement Initiative was the skills and training portion of a larger $130 million Workforce Solutions Initiative, which included things like funding for job coaches.

There is no denying that Evers sent $20 million out the door; here the question is whether it was an investment that resulted in meaningful skills and technical training.

The $20 million was distributed to local workforce development boards who were to partner with community-based organizations.  The millions will be spent on just 2,300 people in the state and the funds are not required to be spent on training.  Allowable uses include housing, childcare, wage subsidies, and other a variety of other services.

There are currently about 139,000 jobs listed on Job Center of Wisconsin, which by no means lists all the jobs available in the state.  The 2300 people this program might provide skills or technical training would fill just 1.7% of the jobs available for a massive $20 million investment.

Also not mentioned in the ad is the fact that the funds were to be targeted at specific groups, including retirees, migrant workers and LTBTQ persons, among others....

*Scritch....scritch.....scratch....* That's $8,700.00 for each 'trainee'.  

But that's not the worst part.  The worst part is that the money is filtered through grifter "workforce development boards" and "community-based organizations."  Those entities are largely populated by Democrat worker-bees whose real job is GOTV for Evers.

Further, what "training" are they giving to retirees?  To "migrant workers"?  And why "target" LGBTQ?  Can't they just be people-in-need-of-training like NON-LGBTQs?

We'll grant that some of the conditions here were imposed by the Feds.  Makes no difference:  it's a massive waste of money.

And they tell us that "inflation" is due to supply problems!