City Council reaction to subsidizing businesses for on-the-job training was mixed, but they voted unanimously to approve Ready to Work's $49.5M budget.
Abby Montoya was doing odd jobs and not making ends meet when she enrolled in Ready to Work. She earned a medical assistant certificate and now works for UT Health San Antonio at its Kyle Seale Parkway location.The San Antonio City Council approved Ready to Work’s $49.5 million budget for fiscal year 2025 Thursday, the largest annual budget so far for the taxpayer-funded workforce development program approved by voters in 2020.
Council reactions to this addition to Ready to Work have run the gamut. Teri Castillo called it “corporate welfare,” with public money going to “billion-dollar industries.” Mike Ramsey, executive director of the city’s Workforce Development Office, which administers Ready to Work, clarified that the contracts do not include a clawback provision “because these are reimbursement agreements; they only get reimbursed for holding up their end of the agreement.”
Just over 7,000 residents are currently enrolled in training, according to the dashboard, and 963 have been placed into jobs. That low number remains the most persistent criticism of the program, along with the low percentage of those who have been placed in a job within 6 months.
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