President Obama's Job Program

When Congress returns, President Obama will submit a new jobs program based on Georgia Work$. Annie Lowery writes of this in Slate, and I have abstracted her quote:

 "For one, retraining programs work better if they are on the job rather than in the classroom."

Employers' present expectations seem to be that the people they hire will fit right into the empty slot in their companies. This is untrue to varying degrees and results in jobs that remain unfilled for long periods of time. Classroom job training doesn't overcome this barrier to employment, and evidently federally-subsidized on-the-job training has done so, notably in Georgia and Mississippi.