On the recordJuly 14, 2015
Well, it is interesting you are bringing that up. There are 15 different craft unions. And the fact of the matter is sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees. They are the largest training--$1.9 billion a year, privately funded, not through any government funds--through the apprenticeship training program of those 15 different craft unions. It is so important because it is in place. That means that, when they are working, they are putting that next generation of people to work. We need people to be in the STEMs, the engineers. But these apprenticeship programs, over 900 sites around the country, are training carpenters, plumbers, cement masons, laborers each and every day, and they have been doing it. The way we can help them make it in America is to start the infrastructure up so that they can start that next generation of folks because an apprenticeship program only works when the journeyman is teaching the apprentice.
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