Posted on 06/13/2017 11:36:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump is trying to focus this week on one thing: Jobs, jobs and more jobs.
The White House is dubbing it "workforce development week" and has filled the president's schedule with workplace visits, speeches and roundtable discussions on the subject. The aim is to present a fix to a big U.S. problem: job skills.
What's clear: Trump wants to make a big commitment to expand apprenticeship programs.
What's unclear: How his budget will pay for it and whether apprenticeships alone can fix the country's massive job skills gap.
Trump's budget proposal allocates $90 million for grants to apprenticeships, but it slashes funding for current job training programs by $1.1 billion, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank.
President Obama allocated the same amount of money for apprenticeships last year.
But beyond funding, experts say that size and scale of what is required present their own challenges. There are 6.8 unemployed Americans actively looking for a job. There were only 450,000 apprentices last year, excluding those in military apprenticeships, and the average program had 24 apprentices.
"You have to create a lot of programs, double or quadruple, before apprenticeships become a lever that's really scalable in helping us to close the skills gap," says David Blake, CEO of Degreed, an education technology firm.....
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Right? Leftist whining is getting *so* tiresome...
Trump’s not relying on ‘the budget’ to pay for the apprenticeships. It may be a foreign concept to Liberals, but he’s building a coalition of private employers who are willing to commit to programs within their own companies. To their benefit because they’ll probably work a commitment agreement along with it, and to our benefit because its not the gubment doing it - and it will likely bring more sanity to job descriptions in general.
correct - Trump recognizes private enterprise is the solution. These apprenticeship programs are proven success.
>correct - Trump recognizes private enterprise is the solution. These apprenticeship programs are proven success.
Germany runs entirely on apprenticeships. Only the people headed for government jobs are sent to college.
not quite correct
but close enough
What is the difference between an Internship and a Apprenticeship? Step Daughter did Internship after college for computer/electronics...and it really gave her a leg up on getting a higher paying job when she went job searching. Now she owns her own IT business and is at the point she needs a PT helper as she is expanding, and gives better than average service to her clients who are varied from home, to business, dentist, lawyers, and a private air service are among the clients. Installs servers, and is quick to make use of ‘free’ software for her customers after she reviews it. Offers ‘cloud’ back up.
My recently retired HVAC guy told me I charge $75 to pull into your driveway(I got a greatly reduced price-he hunted on my property almost exclusively which butts up against a national park), then I charge for parts, and an hourly labor rate. Pretty darn good money!!!
My co-workers nephew graduated from 1 yr. welding program at a community college. He can pull $80 an hour if he is willing to travel around the country. Locally depending on contract he pulls $30-up. Lots of money to be made in the trades.
Change "Americans" to "Democrats" and that sounds about right. :)
>My co-workers nephew graduated from 1 yr. welding program at a community college. He can pull $80 an hour if he is willing to travel around the country. Locally depending on contract he pulls $30-up. Lots of money to be made in the trades.
The problem is that it’s low status work. Social status is given for degrees and parasitism, not actual honest hardwork.
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