Trump wants 4.5 million new apprenticeships in five years — with nearly the same budget

CNBC ^ | June 15, 2017 | Kevin Breuninger

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President Donald Trump wants to blow out the number of apprentices working for U.S. companies — but it doesn't look like he'll spend the money to do it.

Apprenticeships blend on-the-job work with paid classroom instruction, and they usually last two to six years. The federal government has regulated and certified apprenticeships since 1937, but the jobs were not actively promoted by more recent presidents until the Obama administration.

Trump wants to create 5 million new apprenticeships over the next five years, which would be almost 10 times the total that exist now. But the money he has appropriated to apprenticeships is roughly the same as it was under Obama. The budget for fiscal 2016 appropriated $90 million for apprenticeships; that number is set to increase only to $95 million as part of Congress' omnibus budget for 2017.....

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MSNBC can’t quite wrap its head around the concept that things don’t always have to be governmentfunded.

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But the money he has appropriated to apprenticeships is roughly the same as it was under Obama.

Any guesses on what the money was actually spent on/diverted to?