This New Trump Plan Could Be the Answer to Millennial Job Woes

Fortune ^ | June 18, 2017 | Nicholas Wyman

[Innovative]

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to substantially increase the number of U.S. apprenticeships from the current 500,000 (minuscule for the size of the economy) by doubling the amount the government spends on apprenticeship programs.

Trump’s emphasis on this plan is cause for optimism that he will significantly improve the number and quality of apprenticeships in the economy.

Trump’s plan will be a boon to employers. First, they will have a strong role in its composition through a task force that Trump announced. Successful apprenticeship programs work best when designed by employers around their own needs. The plan intends to reduce red tape and overly rigid requirements for administering apprenticeship programs. It also encourages broad-based industry standards for apprenticeships. Employers will undoubtedly respond positively to these changes, and it will encourage them to embrace apprenticeships.

[Innovative]

Excellent.

Teaching people helps them earn a living and get ahead.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

After a few months when these decisions start to bear fruit, the leftist loonies and their temper tantrums are going to look awfully stupid.

Hopefully, that will apply to the RINOs who have been no help, too. I hope they will all pay for it with their jobs in 2018.

[Eccl 10:2]

Also excellent in that it bypasses the PC indoctrination of our decrepit university system.

[IC Ken]

The Steamfitter’s union in Pittsburgh can’t get enough workers to fill all the upcoming jobs needed to build the new Shell Plant. I estimate average pay $80K per year plus benefits.

[Drango]

For awhile I served on a Community College board as an industry rep....They would chase the most wackadoodle apprenticeships around.

I would point out there were very few jobs for solar techs but we needed welders, HVAC and people who could read calipers and use a computer.

[Popman]

I can hear the left now claiming this is Trumps new corp slave labor initiative...

[Repeal The 17th]

I do not understand why the Federal Government determines
how many apprentice type jobs a company might offer.
Must be something to do with tax breaks, I guess.

[taildragger]

I have a brilliant conservative millennial in my social circles. I was asking him about this whole "Mobility Space" buzz word ( aka the big three going for autonomous-electric-orbs that look like their from Woody Allen's Sleeper ) and he was butt honest and saying the whole no car thing / bicycle is a symptom of no economic mobility period.

IMHO this whole mobility space thing is a Faustian bargain for any auto manufacturer.

What will the Millennial's do once they can get a real freakin' job like this plan would do. Would they move to the burbs and want an SUV or a boat on the lake?

If so we have more economic growth in the near future than we realize....

[ryderann]

Hopefully these programs could include the teenagers who are out of school for the summer.

[kiltie65]

“Also excellent in that it bypasses the PC indoctrination of our decrepit university system.”

Nailed it!

[Cementjungle]

After a few months when these decisions start to bear fruit, the leftist loonies and their temper tantrums are going to look awfully stupid.

Programs like this will certainly help a lot of people, but there sill still be a certain number of people who think they are above doing jobs like plumbing, electrical, etc. Many young folks these days feel their calling is in being artists, social activists, journalists, writers, and so on. This group thinks the government should write off their school loans and lend them more so they can comfortably pursue more degrees in transgender social studies, racial psychology and etc.

As more people stoop so low as to allow themselves to be "used by the man" and take up work in the trades, the social justice group will grow even more frustrated and vocal about the injustice of it all.

[vooch]

same experience here - we needed welders, electricians, and machinists. The community college wanted to train social workers, nurses, and communications experts.

I hope Trump is successful.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This needs to be part and parcel to an effort to re-ruralize America. That is, for decades, young Americans have fled rural America for the cities, because it promised greater prosperity and personal success. However, cities no longer offer such things as much as they once did.

Instead, rural America can again become an attractive alternative, but needs a different skill set. Not just the same skills that were used by family farms of old, but updated, more technologically advanced skills.

Some of these are appropriate to apprenticeship, others are academic. From blacksmithing and textiles, to biodiesel, solar panels and water collection and purification. There might also be inland aquaculture, greenhouses and underground agriculture.

[central_va]

This needs to be part and parcel to an effort to re-ruralize America. That is, for decades, young Americans have fled rural America for the cities, because it promised greater prosperity and personal success

That is not why. The USA has been systematically de -industrializing at an alarming rate. Factories used to support entire small to mid sized towns economically. This is the real reason because we took away the rice bowl from Red State America. One of the cruelest things that can happen to any society/culture and we do it wholesale. Thanks globalist Free Traitors™.

[duckman]

“Teaching people helps them earn a living and get ahead.”
Better still if the schools have job placement centers.

[trebb]

Successful apprenticeship programs work best when designed by employers around their own needs. The plan intends to reduce red tape and overly rigid requirements for administering apprenticeship programs.

Amazing what can happen when common sense is used instead of bureaucratic red tape and other de-incentives...