Subject: Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are a trending alternative to college — but there's a hitch
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17...

But while more Americans may see apprenticeships as a path into the workforce, employers have generally been slow to offer them.
Put simply, Williams says: "We have more learners than we have employers."

There are currently 680,288 Americans in apprenticeships, according to the U.S. Department of Labor — up 89 percent since 2014, the earliest year for which the figure is available.

But that's not even half of 1 percent of the U.S. workforce. By comparison, there are more than 18 million Americans in college.

An emerging body of research nationwide blames this imbalance partly on reluctance among employers to provide apprenticeships. Training people for work, after all, was a job that most of them previously relied on colleges and universities to do.

I'm surprised there are so few apprenticeships. Employers need to train their workers.