Train in Vain Anne Kim, Washington Monthly Under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, state and local workforce agencies provide unemployed and underemployed workers “individual training accounts” to pay for training from state-approved providers included on an “eligible training provider list”—an ETPL.
The only way an institution can get federal training dollars is to be on a state’s ETPL. But rather than ensuring practical, affordable training for in-demand jobs, the lists are a haven for expensive for-profits and fly-by-night concerns. | 
