The President’s New Apprentices
June 28, 2017
6/22/17 – “I love the name apprentice,” President Trump just said in announcing that the nation needs a stronger system of apprenticeships to match workers with open jobs, adding that his administration plans to get companies and schools to pair up and pay the cost of such arrangements. Issues also has a history with apprenticeships, examining (here and here) how they and other forms of technical training—often with government input and support—can effectively prepare young people for jobs that industry needs today and into the future.