Laid off? Want job training? Too bad.

I could swear that Bush went to a community college in Toledo, OH, earlier this year to brag about providing job training for laid off workers. Well I think he's waffling, because this next part is more than predictable.

Across the country, thousands of laid-off workers — many of them from smaller companies in thinly populated states — stand to lose job-retraining opportunities because of a little-noticed change in the way the government pays for such programs.

The new Labor Department rules, adopted earlier this year, bar the longtime practice under which states "bundled" small groups of laid-off workers from separate companies to reach the threshold of 50 employees needed to obtain training dollars.

The rule change could make it more difficult for workers who lose jobs at small companies to get training help. Thinly populated states like Iowa will be hardest hit, since many people there work at smaller companies.

But remember, folks, that economy's humming thanks to dem tax cuts!