Ivanka Trump met with business leaders Wednesday in a roundtable discussion on workforce development and one of the CEOs in attendance, Judith Marks of Siemens, told FOX Business the meetings with administration officials have been "very positive" and helpful for both sides.
"I'll be signing an executive order to expand apprenticeships and vocational training to help all Americans find a rewarding career, earn a great living and love going to work in the morning", Trump said.
The new program the president and his daughter are promoting doubles the amount of money that goes toward apprenticeship programs from $90 to $200 million.
. Given that these programs will be also be known as Registered Apprenticeships, it will be hard for employers to know whether a former apprentice has received training that meets the applicable federal standards, or whether the apprentice participated in a lower-quality program that did not meet the same standards."Apprenticeships place students into great jobs without the crippling debt of traditional four-year college degrees", Trump said at the White House event.
"I probably wouldn't be here if it weren't for the American worker", Trump said.
Trump is ordering a review of the existing 43 workforce-development programs, which sprawl across 13 federal agencies and spend $16.7 billion annually.
Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit that helps promote skills training and job opportunities for low-income people, supports apprenticeship programs that have the Labor Department's stamp of approval, says the group's president, Maria K. Flynn. Apprenticeships that are already certified by the Labor Department would not change.
Under Trump's order, private industry would have more leeway but still have to register. Those programs would then be left to industry to design under broad standards from the Labor Department. Some critics say that means government approval would be more limited.
"As we train the next generation to do their jobs, all of us here have to do our jobs, we have to join forces and hands and join together to restore american dream for all of our people", added Mr. Trump. Maria Cantwell, D-Ore., who is sponsoring a bill with Sen.
"It really gave me a jump start to get into a field that I had no prior experience in", said Haban, who now coordinates apprentice programs for the company.
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There are about 500,000 apprenticeship positions in the U.S.
Durbin and Trump haven't agreed on much since the president took office, but they do on that point.
Acosta said the policy would revolve around encouraging more partnerships between business and schools rather than increasing the $90 million the federal government now devotes to apprenticeships.
Americans are loath to abandon the dream of seeing their kids graduate from college, even if an apprenticeship is more likely to lead to a well-paying job than a four-year liberal-arts degree.
Trump accepted a challenge earlier this year from a CEO to create 5 million new apprenticeships. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, the top Democrat on the appropriations panel that oversees education spending, said in a statement that Thursday's executive order could "open the floodgates for federal dollars to flow to so-called "job training programs" like Trump University".
The shortages for specifically trained workers cut across multiple job sectors beyond Trump's beloved construction trades.
"And that's exactly what we're doing", said President Trump.
Another complication: Only about half of apprentices finish their multi-year programs, Lerman said.
Trump's tour of the school that included a stop at a classroom filled with tool and die machines. Fewer than 50,000 people - including 11,104 in the military - completed their apprenticeships in 2016, according to Labor Department. Filling millions more jobs through apprenticeships would require the government to massively ramp up its efforts.
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