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“It’s really hard to find those employers,” says Brittany Williams, chief partnership officer at Edu-REACH. Edu-REACH stands for Rural Education Achievement for Community Hope, a nonprofit organization currently working to find apprenticeships for students in and around Hamlin. at Cook’s old high school.
Cases where demand exceeds supply
Apprenticeships combine paid on-the-job training with classroom time. There is bipartisan support for expanding its use, making it a rare topic of agreement among presidential candidates in recent elections.
They are also benefiting from growing public skepticism about the necessity of college. Only one in four adults say a four-year degree is very or extremely important to getting a good job, according to a Pew Research Center survey. And almost two-thirds of 14- to 18-year-olds say their ideal education includes learning skills in the field, such as an apprenticeship, according to research by ECMC Group.
But while more Americans may consider apprenticeships as a path to the workforce, employers are generally slow to offer them. Simply put, Williams says: “We have more learners than employers.”
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, there are 680,288 Americans currently in apprenticeships, an 89% increase from 2014, the first year for which these numbers are available.
But that’s less than half of 1 percent of the U.S. workforce. By comparison, more than 18 million Americans attend college.
A new national research body attributes this disparity in part to employers’ reluctance to offer apprenticeships. After all, training people for jobs is something most companies have traditionally relied on universities to do.
Under President Donald Trump, apprenticeships will continue to be encouraged. President Donald Trump promoted apprenticeships in his first administration, and Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon is speaking out. Opponent Vice President Kamala Harris has promised to double the number of apprenticeships.