So, where's the money?

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Something a little different today.

As I write this, we’re 33 days away from the end of the fiscal year. I’m going to focus today on outlining where it appears some of the missing money is… maybe. If you’re a paid subscriber, you can still find grants listings below, which are $1.9 billion for the week, with $27 million in DOL additions for international labor projects.

No, really, where’s the money?

Last week, a reader tipped me off to take a glance at at White House Office of Management and Budget materials I hadn’t plowed through in a while. The flag was about the Senior Community Service Employment Program, a well-funded DOL program that covers costs from training and employing older workers at community service organizations.

If you’re a SCSEP grantee, you’ll be pretty infuriated by what I found. If you’re interested in any of the other dollars, the good news is that I got my estimate of missing money down to around $130 million. The bad news is half of it is likely gone if it wasn’t spent on some undisclosed project.

It’s worth noting that this stuff has real consequences, something I think gets missed when you’re juggling numbers on a spreadsheet. Tens of thousands of jobs are gone. People are losing lifelines and livelihoods. And probably for no good reason.

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