Job Training That's Cheap, but Not Necessarily Useful

There's an old story about a drunk who is looking by the curb for his car keys in the middle of the night. A bystander offers to help and asks the drunk where he lost his keys. The drunk tells him that he dropped them in the bushes. The bystander asks the drunk why he is looking by the curb if he dropped his keys in the bushes, to which the drunk replies, "the light is better here."

That seems to be the logic that the NYT discovered in a piece that looked at job training programs. It notes...