I don't really know how to tell you this delicately, but you're in an information bubble. If you have to go reaching back 30 years to a jobs program for an exa

I don't really know how to tell you this delicately, but you're in an information bubble. If you have to go reaching back 30 years to a jobs program for an example of a sham social protection program, they are probably in great shape (a jobs training program isn't even really a social protection). I know some unions have nepotism problems with jobs in the union (which is different than union jobs). I wonder if they are particularly worse than other political arenas though, where many value loyalty and control more than merit. And, of course, unions are not social protection programs. They are a response to the lack of social protections. School funding isn't even tangentially related to social protections.