Posted on 02/21/2021 11:02:44 AM PST by John Semmens
The latest batch of Executive Orders signed by President Biden included one revoking the Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Program (IRAP) established by President Trump in 2017. According to the Biden Administration "the problem with the Trump program is that it allowed trade and industry groups, companies, non-profit organizations, unions, and joint labor-management organizations to create their own apprenticeship programs that would help workers obtain the skills that the economy needed."
Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained that "the narrow focus on developing job skills that enable the apprentices to proficiently perform the necessary tasks of their work is out-of-step with our vision of building back better. We think a larger role for the government is needed in order to ensure that social justice goals like racial diversity are vigorously pursued."
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the Ranking Member on the House Committee on Education and Labor, called Biden's move "a step backward. Ending IRAPs will kill jobs. The notion that a grossly inefficient government bureaucracy can improve on a program that has been working successfully for nearly four years is ludicrous and irresponsible. Reintroducing the added layers of red-tape that stifled job training during the Obama Administration will hurt working people, businesses, consumers, and the economy."
Psaki rebutted Foxx's criticism, saying that "the mania for efficiency and prosperity that drove the policies of the Trump Administration is over. The new theme is 'unity.' Not everyone can be efficient. Prosperity is an excessively materialistic yardstick. The President believes that the inept, indolent, and stupid must be allowed an appropriate place in our newly unified America. Government regulation is the perfect tool for accomplishing this."
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Heaven forbid that anyone would get educated on how the evil capitalist system functions...
Is this joke?
Apprenticeship programs are everywhere in the world!
Not everybody needs to go to college, and good skilled workers are in short supply. They usually fetch a lot better pay than people with useless college degrees!
I thought that this program was pretty bipartisan, that everybody in the USA would approve good educational program, which actually prepares people for great jobs!
Is Bidet really canceling this? If yes, then, he really does not care about common people!
Allows industry "[to] create their own apprenticeship programs that would help workers obtain the skills that the economy needed." but bad is "the narrow focus on developing job skills that enable the apprentices to proficiently perform the necessary tasks of their work is out-of-step with our vision of building back better. We think a larger role for the government is needed in order to ensure that social justice goals like racial diversity are vigorously pursued."
I seem to recall a number of observations than a number of degreed college graduates are finding employment in the hospitality industry, as in "do you want fries with that". Somehow, to me "social justice goals" and "getting things done" appears to be at odds.
Or can the Democrats show how having a degree in Women's Studies leads to a fruitful job that lets the graduate pay off their student loans?
Biden thought it spelled M-E-T-S, so he canceled it!!
OMG! Government on control of job training? Train everyone to become transgender affirmers?
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