Expanding paid apprenticeships is sorely needed.
I was kind of lost at 23, driving a cab.
Had a college degree but did nothing with it.
My aunt saw an ad for 4k bucks in fed grant to put towards learning microsoft office and typing OR network admin.
I took the Microsoft and typing and within three years was in a graphics dept of a major investment bank making a bundle (to me it was a bundle :))
No need to invest 100s of thousands per person.
4k is all it took. And they got their money back in taxes within a year.