Over the next four years, two-year colleges will get $2 billion in federal funds to train “dislocated” workers. What’s the best use of the money?
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Probably not to spend it. It is all borrowed money, part of a mountain of debt to be dealt with by our children and grandchildren, if it doesn’t collapse the system entirely. Given the past record of subsidized job retraining, the dislocated workers are probably better of it this isn’t done.