Welfare

FUNDS GO AWOL AS CITY HIJACKS JOB TRAINING CASH

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The city’s welfare agency took $120 million to do job training two years ago, but they can’t prove they’ve made a difference. Now they’re scheming to take over a $615 training budget.

A few years ago, the city’s welfare agency got special permission from the federal government to take control of roughly $120 million worth of welfare-to-work funds. The welfare agency hasn’t managed to spend the money on time, and it won’t even tell the federal Department of Labor what it’s done with the cash.

The Disabled

WELFARE-TO-WRASSLE

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Rudy crows about how many welfare recipients are working, but he’s not talking about the fact that nearly as many are fighting with the city to get benefits restored.