President Trump promotes apprenticeships

NTD Staff
By NTD Staff
June 15, 2017US News
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President Trump promotes apprenticeships

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to increase apprenticeship programs on June 15.

The order was designed to “expand apprenticeship and vocational training to help all Americans find a rewarding career, earn a great living and support themselves and their families and love going to work in the morning,” said Trump. “We will be removing federal restrictions that have prevented many different industries from creating apprenticeship programs.”

The president pointed out that for apprentices, education was a job; they earned a paycheck instead of paying a teacher.

The president explained why apprenticeship programs were so important.

“Apprenticeships place students into great jobs without the crippling debt of traditional four-year college degrees. Apprentices  earn while they learn,” as the president described it.

Many people say that nowadays every job requires a college degree. Meanwhile, many graduates end up in entry-level positions that don’t use their educations. Stories abound of college graduates moving back in with their parents, or working in the fast-food industry, unable to afford  a home and family, unable to find a career.

Apprenticeship programs offer on-the-job training in important fields.   

“Not only will our apprentices transform their lives, but they will also transform our lives in the truest sense,” Trump said. “Today’s apprentices will construct the roads and bridges that move our citizens, they will bend the metal and steel that shape our cities, and they will pioneer the new technology that drives our commerce.”

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