The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosted a discussion Friday on "Getting America Back to Work." The panel discussed publicly funded job training programs, their performance in the U.S. and possible reform ideas.
The federal government currently supports over 40 different programs that provide job training.
Participants included: Lawrence Katz of Harvard University, Harry Holzer of Georgetown University, Jeffrey Smith of the University of Michigan, Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution, Paul Decker of Mathematica Policy Research, Betsey Stevenson of the University of Michigan and Kenneth Troske of the University of Kentucky.