the impact for the typical worker did not seem as if the benefits were particular large. i absolutely disagree. we see people with additional training who are able to go into jobs. reporter: but critics say the challenge is predicting those jobs. the problem is nobody really i ve been a labor economist for for over 15 years, and i don t do a very good job of predicting what the next hot new job is. i don t believe we should get rid of the training program. i think we should work on improving them to get them better targeted. reporter: and red tape also sabotaged his quest for a new career. because he was laid off from the finance career, he qualified for a national emergency grant for job retraining. but going to school for jewelry design? well, that raised some eyebrows at the labor department. they said that s not really what we classify as an in-demand