An audit of a boutique that provides business attire to low-income job-seekers has been found to be not spending a government grant on the intended purpose. During 2010, $11 million have been given to a Detroit boutique in order to dress 400 low-income people who have a job interview lined up. It was found that only two people received this service (Funds to help 400 job-seekers aided only 2).
I believe there is a bigger issue here that has been looked over. I'm not sure what kind of clothes this boutique runs or how much clothes a low-income person needs, but having $27,500 per person to spend on business attire is ridiculous. The government should be the ones to be audited since they are giving out these grants. If the government is not looked into during this situation, more situations like this could arise easily.
The problem of giving away such a large amount of money might be due to a lack of communication within that area of the government. If someone was told that they were going to be supplying 40,000 people, then that number would make more sense. Without double checking between grant workers, grave mistakes like this could occur leading to a huge loss of money in the system.
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