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Young people want to start businesses, but they face challenges.
Forward-thinking employers across the country are demonstrating that apprenticeships can be used to build talent in growing, high-demand occupations.
Employer-written national guideline standards can strengthen America’s apprenticeship system.
Millennials are saving less for retirement than older generations, threatening the long-term financial security of the youngest generation of American workers.
The United States lags behind its European counterparts in the use of apprenticeships, a proven workforce training tool that would help American businesses, workers, and the U.S. economy as a whole.
Here are the top five ways American companies can benefit from hiring an apprentice.
Apprenticeship is a time-tested worker-training model that is gaining traction as a possible solution to America’s workforce challenges. Here are some steps that states can take to expand apprenticeships.
England demonstrates that there are policies lawmakers can enact to dramatically expand apprenticeships, win industry support, and improve outcomes for workers and businesses.
Scotland has doubled its number of apprenticeships while expanding their occupational and gender reach.
Economic research shows that the safety net reduces poverty and boosts mobility.
Congress has never cut off unemployment insurance when long-term unemployment has been this high.
Lawmakers should expand apprenticeship opportunities to give young Americans access to well-paying, middle-class jobs that do not require a four-year degree.
By expanding apprenticeships in the United States, policymakers can create pathways to well-paying middle-class jobs for young Americans, while helping businesses meet the need for skilled workers.
Failing to expand emergency unemployment benefits would cut off millions of Americans from benefits and slow economic growth.
Young Americans have the most to gain from raising the minimum wage and enhancing worker protections.
Millennials can’t afford to let conservatives dismantle America’s greatest progressive achievement.
The government can implement policies to combat Millennials’ unemployment today and secure a more prosperous American future tomorrow.
Rebuilding our economy from the middle out—not from the top down—is central to creating an American economy that works for Millennials.
Lawmakers must acknowledge the magnitude of America’s youth-unemployment crisis or face long-term economic fallout.
The economic consequences of high youth unemployment are enduring, and failing to employ young people today will result in lost earnings, greater costs, and slower economic growth tomorrow.
This brief outlines the parameters of 10 different student-loan-repayment plans, highlights the benefits of each, and suggests issues for policymakers to take into account when considering each plan.
The new House Republican budget proposes steep cuts in both public and private investment.
Clearly, with their latest budget plan, House Republicans fail to understand that simply restating bad ideas doesn’t make them any better.
Conseratives in Congress support a measure to limit federal spending at 18 percent of gross domestic product. The last time federal spending dipped under 18 percent was 1966, nearly half a century ago. Things have changed quite a bit since then.