The Washington Post, March 12th, 1993
The Post's Feb. 25 editorial "Training the Workers" states "true apprenticeships with businesses and trades are rare." I have some doubts as to how well the writer may be informed. More than 400,000 people receive training each year as apprentices under "true apprenticeship." These apprenticeship programs are operated and financed by employers or employers and labor organizations with no funding from the federal government. The basis for considering them "rare" is possibly that no one is really interested in looking at them since they don't have a multimillion- dollar price tag attached. Furt...
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