President Donald Trump wants a trio of federal agencies to develop a plan to train one million new apprentices, including in the skilled trades and emerging industries, such as artificial intelligence.
Trump, in an executive order signed Wednesday, instructed the Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Education to conduct a full-scale review of federal apprenticeship programs to identify areas that can be reformed and to realign resources towards programs that train for in-demand skills.
The Labor Department oversees the government’s central job training program, the federal registered apprenticeship system. Workforce development programs that meet certain requirements can register with the agency, ...