Politics
Atlanta job-training funds went to insiders
By Steve Visser
May 2, 2014What do a convicted murderer, a Bentley-driving nightclub owner, a family doctor, a Chamber of Commerce Businessperson of the Year and a son of Atlanta’s police chief have in common?
Unwittingly or not, they all got caught up in a government giveaway to businesses with ties to city insiders.
Atlanta was granted $1.6 million to retrain struggling workers during the Great Recession. But the city’s jobs agency gave hundreds of thousands of those dollars to companies that billed for phantom workers or provided, at best, meager job training, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found.
Find out more in Sunday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
