Job Retraining

Government funded job retraining programs are an awful idea. If there is an industry need for this training, it will be provided by companies to employees or new hires who seem a good match. If there is not a need for it, industries will know this long before the government.
Federal job training programs are a form of welfare, an intentional distortion of unemployment figures, and another method to entrap a dependent underclass of non-productive voters. Even the best-run government training program cannot match a mediocre industry-run program, and at any rate, the goals are not at all the same.