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About 14% of those in the apprenticeship program found permanent full-time employment with the transit agency, a Sun-Times investigation found. Others, some strung along for years, remained in low-paying roles with no benefits.
Need to go to college and that these trade jobs are not for them, not as good paying, this isn't the future. is it just changing? >> well, it's a demographic issue. baby boomers are retiring at a greater rate than we can recruit more people into the industry and industry is doing all it can to bring more people in the trades, including apprenticeship programs, second chancers, incarcerated people second careers, getting into the pipeline in the construction industry but a broader issue in our culture which is schools push people to colleges and they don't consider putting people into the trade...
The show is written and performed by Maria Hemming and Lucy Barnfather, who met at drama school
Ward will be seen in an episode airing Wednesday as they compete for a spot in the Tournament of Champions.