Posts Tagged ‘USAID’
USAID training foreign workers for English-speaking jobs
While the president has been urging “insourcing,” the government has been sending money to the Philippines to train foreign workers for jobs in English-speaking call centers.
According to New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, this is unacceptable and “shocking.”
The pair are calling on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to immediately suspend what is known as the Job Enabling English Proficiency (JEEP) program.
According to Jones’ office, in 2010, after the two men compelled USAID to end a similar training program in Sri Lanka, the agency assured the congressmen that they would “conduct a review to ensure the project will not take any jobs away from Americans.”
Read more By Caroline May at The Daily Caller
US State Department is Building… Mosques
by Candace de Russy, bigpeace.com, 8/12/2010
What else is the State Department larding out, at hard-pressed taxpayers’ expense, to facilitate “understanding” with the Muslim world?
Read more at http://bigpeace.com/cderussy/2010/08/12/u-s-state-department-is-building-mosques/
Q: Is President Obama using tax dollars to rebuild mosques around the world?
A: Yes — and to rebuild historic churches and temples as well. The State Department’s program to preserve overseas cultural landmarks started funding projects under President Bush in 2001.
Read more at http://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/funding-mosques-overseas/
USAID is funding mosque rebuilding in Egypt