How States Are Wasting Federal Money That's Meant to Retrain and Employ Coal Workers

Governing: Two years ago, the federal government launched a new grant program to retrain and employ "dislocated workers," people who lost their jobs and are unlikely to find work again in the same field. Think coal plant or steel manufacturing workers.

Though Congress awarded $150 million to states through the so-called Sector Partnership National Emergency Grant program, the labor department says some states have trouble using the money and end up sending it back to the feds.

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