The US government is correcting how it measures job training for food assistance

The Food and Nutrition Service is fixing a rule about how it monitors and reports on job training programs for people receiving food assistance. This change affects how the government collects information to see if these programs actually help people find and keep jobs.

The government runs programs to help people on food assistance get jobs. For these programs to work, the government needs to know if they are effective. This correction changes how that effectiveness is measured, which means it changes what the government knows about its own programs. It could mean the programs are either more or less effective than previously thought, depending on the specific changes to the measurement.