[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.

[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.

[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...