j. paxton's being keeping a video diary about his experiences on the government's work programme today were. the work programs the government's flagship scheme that pays private sector organizations to place people at work and they called it a revolution in welfare but the first figures released since its launch revealed a resoundingly failure something that hasn't surprised slightest save left a to going keep his appointment now it seems pretty tightly regimented we watch people running in all morning to keep that appointment g.'s been coming to this job center once a fortnight for the past six months that he's been on the government's work programme in the time he hasn't found a single job unfortunately that's not uncommon the latest figures released by the department of work and pensions say that joe is just one of hundreds of thousands of people signed up to that work programme skein he found absolutely nothing in fact between jean two thousand and eleven and july this year of all the people who were signed up to the work programme only three point four percent were found work far below