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National Apprenticeship Week. 10 Year Anniversary. November 17-23, 2024. 10 Years of engagement, expansion & innovation

National Apprenticeship Week 2024: 10 Years of Celebrating Opportunity, Security and Dignity

Office of Disability Employment Policy - Nov 19, 2024
Registered apprenticeship is a superhighway to jobs, opportunity and economic stability. Long associated with the skilled trades, apprenticeship is becoming more commonplace in other growth industries like health care and IT.

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NEW DATA: Childcare costs remain an almost prohibitive expense

Georgia Poyatzis, Gretchen Livingston - Nov 19, 2024
We updated our National Database of Childcare Prices with data from 2019-2022 and found that U.S. families spend between 8.9% and 16.0% of their median income on full-day care for just one child.

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By 2033, 1 in 8 new jobs will be in this sector

Stanislava Ilic-Godfrey - Nov 12, 2024
From 2023 to 2033, about 1 in 8 new jobs will be in leisure and hospitality. Learn more about these jobs and what’s driving the growth.

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Growing and diversifying the STEM/STEAM educator workforce through Registered Apprenticeship

Manny Lamarre - Nov 08, 2024
Registered Apprenticeship has the power to improve the recruitment and retention of STEM/STEAM educators.

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Apprenticeship takes off for tech

John Ladd - Oct 30, 2024
National Apprenticeship Week is around the corner. This year, help us celebrate the power of Registered Apprenticeship to transform the cybersecurity workforce!

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Improving workers’ safety and health in the South

Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Oct 28, 2024
Dorinda Hughes, who leads OSHA’s new Birmingham region, is focusing on worker safety and health for the growing Southern workforce while fostering collaboration and fairness.

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A for modernization: Labor Department excels on IT scorecard

Lisa Glufling - Oct 03, 2024
Twice a year, Congress releases a scorecard grading the 24 largest federal agencies on their IT strategies. We received an overall "A" on the latest report card, improving from a "B."

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We analyzed 5 years’ worth of childcare prices. Here’s what we found.

Georgia Poyatzis, Gretchen Livingston - Sep 30, 2024
Parents who have the feeling that child care gets more expensive every year aren’t imagining it.

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I am DOL: Rob Robinson pursues justice for workers

Office of Human Resources - Sep 26, 2024
Rob Robinson, a paralegal specialist in the Office of the Solicitor, helps protect workers’ rights through the legal system.

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