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Industry group reports five-year growth in electronics workforce programs as it celebrates National Apprenticeship Week National Apprenticeship Week The U.S. Department of Labor has approved IPC’s National Program Standards of Apprenticeship – the first-ever in the U.S. electronics manufacturing industry – in a move designed to expand the skilled workforce for this strategically vital industry. At a ceremony on Wednesday afternoon at DOL’s Washington headquarters, Dep...

College promise programs offering “free college” to local students are increasingly adding a new task to their core mission — connecting young people to internships and apprenticeships. The programs, in which students are promised free college tuition if they graduate high school, have long been considered a silver bullet against the soaring tuition and loan […]

When you look around Kansas City, you'll see some beautiful buildings, skyscrapers and historical structures, but you might not know the skilled trade workers behind them.

Our Two America series focuses on segments of the population you might not know much about, and it seems like one area of the workforce has been overlooked in recent years.

Santa Fe Opera Presents ‘Songs For The Future’ March 11 - 8:39 am Photos by Simon Pauly and Jaxon Photo Group Santa Fe Opera News: The Santa Fe Opera will present Songs for the Future, a special online program to benefit its singing and technical Apprentice Programs, 6 p.m. March 11. World-renowned mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter, both former Santa Fe Opera apprentices, will host this celebration featuring perfo...

Keeping up. so if you have a new factory of the kind youre talking about, there will be jobs in the maintenance of those automated robots, in the creation of those robots, but they displace an awful lot of ordinary human labor that you could provide in middle class life a generation ago. >> but we hear all about these work force development programs. its what ivanka trump spends a lot of her time on. wouldnt they come into play here? so if youre going to open a plant like that, where are those p...

Its so difficult because on the one hand, you alienate moderates if you stick with this, quote, unquote, mean bill. but if you soften it, if you try to appeal to moderates and even to some democrats, as republicans would like to, youre going to alienate the conservatives. and its very hard in the senate especially to see how you get to 50 votes. >> ashley, we would love to be talking about apprentice programs. wed love to be talking about tax reform, about infrastructure, and yet were not becaus...

Going to be in the types of professions where students are starting out, entry professions, professions you typically see coming out of community college, professions that you typically see at most large state four-year institutions. and for those professions, you dont have those types of barriers. right behind you, sir. >> thank you, mr. secretary. given the advantages of apprentice programs, what are the ceos telling you about why they arent used much more often? >> i dont want to speak for th...

Driven experience-based education can be improved and can be used in a wide variety of sectors to further advance the workforce. incorporating apprenticeships in two and four-year degree programs, both traditional learning and skills-based learning. this is particularly important for those students who learn better by doing. president trump can speak firsthand to the success of apprentice programs in the building trade. the building trade invests nearly a billion dollars a year into the impressm...

Successful apprenticeship is what i like as the name, apprentice programs. as a result, germanys youth and an employment rate is much lower than many of the other countries, especially the e.u. countries. i welcome collaboration between our two countries and are industry leaders. we have some of our great industry leaders here, as you know, chancellor. great people. we must embrace new and effective job trading approaches, including online courses, high school curriculums, and private sector inv...