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Job-Creating Tax Credit Faulted: An internal Labor Department report calls for scrapping a $300-million program that falls short of its goal of enticing businesses to hire disadvantaged workers. The audit, prepared by the department's inspector general's office, said employers would have hired nearly all the workers for which they received the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit without the program, adding that the cost of the program far exceeds its benefit.

Job-Creating Tax Credit Faulted: An internal Labor Department report calls for scrapping a $300-million program that falls short of its goal of enticing businesses to hire disadvantaged workers. The audit, prepared by the department's inspector general's office, said employers would have hired nearly all the workers for which they received the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit without the program, adding that the cost of the program far exceeds its benefit.

The owner of a Silver Lake garment manufacturing shop has been ordered to pay $1,600 in overtime wages to 23 employees to settle a lawsuit filed against the company by the U. S. Department of Labor. U. S. District Judge Stephen Wilson ordered Ambartsoum Palian, the owner of Tereza Manufacturing Co.

Members of the Los Angeles wartime veterans group never thought they would end up in a home-front fight. That's what is happening at Patriotic Hall, however, as American Legion leaders battle to stay in the place they have called home for 87 years. Los Angeles County is wrapping up a $45.4-million renovation of the 10-story neo-Italian Renaissance landmark at 1816 S. Figueroa St. and is preparing to reopen it for use by veterans' organizations. But the American Legion and a dozen other veterans' groups worry that they won't be getting their old office space back.

The number of Southern California garment makers shifting production to Mexico has risen dramatically in the last couple of years, as even the region's most entrenched firms have reacted to the state's sharply increased minimum wage and other competitive pressures. But so far the movement of sewing work to Latin America has not dealt a crushing blow to the region's apparel industry, as some people predicted it would and as it has in other garment strongholds on the East Coast and in Texas.