Gives unprecedented power to governors. By passes state legislators. Creates a planned and managed economy by centralizing direct control over the US workforce. And it Burdens America's taxpayers with the cost of supporting this massive restructuring. In 1999, President Clinton literally glowed when discussing the U.S. economy in his State of Union address.
Free enterprise works, and works well.
Because the WIA is not just an adult job training consolidation bill as it was sold to Congress. Sponsors of the Workforce Investment Act insisted that it had nothing to do with School to Work. In an effort to insure that it didn't, Senator John Ashcroft added a simple one sentence amendment to the bill. Because it would have prevented any funds from the WIA to be used to fund any STW activities. Unfortunately, because of presidential pressure, Ashcrofts's amendment was amended and now merely prevents funds from the WIA being used to fund the School to Work Opportunities Act.