Posted on 06/24/2017 4:04:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It will also provide more funding and create a task force of business leaders to help promote the programs across new sectors, as well as assess the effectiveness of the job-training programs now in place.
Trump plans to sign an executive order that would reorient and expand ApprenticeshipUSA, a grant program that was previously championed by the Obama administration and has been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Trump's executive order also requires all federal agencies that participate in apprenticeship programs or workforce training to examine whether their efforts are duplicative or could be combined with other programs to greater effect.
The new program the president and his daughter are promoting doubles the amount of money that goes toward apprenticeship programs from $90 to $200 million. .
The White House said Mr Trump's push is aimed at training workers with specific skills for particular jobs that employers say they can not fill at a time of historically low unemployment. "We have regulations on top of regulations, and in history no one has never gotten rid of so many regulations as the Trump administration".
"We are excited about working with the administration to help create more job and career opportunities in the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry through apprenticeship", said Rob Gifford, the NRAEF's executive vice president, in a statement. Trump's apprenticeship rollout, he said Thursday, will "place students into great jobs without the crippling debt" that often comes with it.
The president said the on-the-job training and earn-as-you-learn programs would prepare students for many rewarding careers, including high-tech jobs operating state-of-the-art machinery. Those programs would then be left to industry to design under broad standards from the Labor Department.
By definition, apprenticeships link education with skills that are in demand, and evidence suggests they are effective in terms of wage and job outcomes.
President Donald J. Trump, center a podium, announces an executive order to expand apprenticeships in an effort to close the skills gap in America.
Apprenticeship programs, run by the companies who know what their needs are, will help address this massive mismatch.
The apprenticeship expansion is being rolled out as part of what the White House has dubbed "workforce development week".
There are about 500,000 apprenticeship positions in the USA, representing less than a percentage of the US workforce. Bipartisan legislation was also introduced in the House to strengthen the Perkins Act, which provides federal support for technical education by modernizing it for the 21st century, a bill Ivanka Trump praised on Fox and Friends earlier in the week.
Last year, the NRAEF was awarded a $1.8 million contract by the Department of Labor to create a hospitality apprenticeship program in conjunction with the American Hotel and Lodging Association.
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca said Trump is pulling a "bait and switch" by claiming he cares about workers while cutting resources to train them. The White House estimates there are 6 million vacant jobs that companies can not fill due to a lack of skilled workers.
The White House is seeking to focus attention on Trump's economic agenda amid scrutiny over a federal investigation into possible coordination between his presidential campaign and Russian Federation.
Much better than a worthless degree.
Anything that goes around the big monopoly of leftist education is great news.
If more people train to be cooks, the restaurant owners can pay them less.
The apprenticeship program will buoy the restaurant industry, since all those illegal migrants that have been hired by tthese restaurants are now being deported ...
“somebody has to do it!!”
That’s something of a short-sighted attitude. Hundreds of new restaurants, country clubs, cruise ships, franchises and caterers open every week.
No, it’s economic reality. If you increase the supply of a production element, the price per-each-apiece drops. Cooking schools are very busy in the United States, but plenty of graduates are working as human resources flunkies (”College degree required”) because working as a cook doesn’t pay enough to support a family, and the hours and working conditions are pretty darn rough.
A government-funded training program will provide a larger pool of available employees who can be paid even less to work awful hours in difficult conditions.
I’m assuming that cooks are the point, because the idea of a government-funded “apprenticeship” program for wait-staff or cleaners is absurd.
Actually there is a looming critical shortage of cooks.
Raise the wages. Improve the hours and working conditions.
“If you build it, they will come.”
Damned good idea!
Actually, the Trump apprenticeship program is much more trades and manufacturing oriented. This is just the NRA praising the aspect of cook training.
Good. Our local community colleges have excellent trade programs. One of my sons took a semester of Diesel Heavy Equipment Mechanics, before he decided that chemistry will be his life, after all.
“If more people train to be cooks, the restaurant owners can pay them less.”
...or perhaps we could import fewer.
We import them because the owners want to pay less than the native supply would allow, under conditions the native supply doesn’t want to endure. This is the basic principle of an international labor market. What you or I would find intolerable, in terms of wage, hours, benefits, housing ... a Venezuelan with a skill thinks is just ducky, and get me to the Walmart.
A greater supply of a marketable skill leads to a lower price for the skill. This is as immutable as gravity. If the government pays to train more cooks, the price for cooks will fall. What’s the price for Feminist Literary Theoreticians these days, or Underwater Basketweavers?
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