It’s been an unprecedented time for workforce investments and the future of work. Bills like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHiPs Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act all provide much-needed funding to develop the nation’s manufacturing capabilities, boost our climate resilience, and more. But there’s a central question on everyone’s mind: where will we find the workers to fill these jobs? If every person without a job found one tomorrow, there would still be an estimated 3 million open roles to fill.
The White House recently released a playbook that calls on state and local governments to use a solution that has been hiding in plain sight for decades: Apprenticeship, the foundational earn-and-learn model that provides paid on-the-job training that can lead directly to a quality job. Once considered mostly a path for the building trades, today’s apprenticeships are beginning to encompass a wider variety of industries that have notably struggled to fill jobs, including education and health care.
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