{"id":732,"date":"2016-07-20T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtwc.org\/?p=732"},"modified":"2016-07-20T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T19:26:43","slug":"labor-department-provides-50-5-million-in-grants-for-apprenticeships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/labor-department-provides-50-5-million-in-grants-for-apprenticeships\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Department Provides $50.5 Million in Grants for Apprenticeships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deadline: September 7, 2016<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grants.gov\/web\/grants\/search-grants.html?keywords=apprenticeship\">Grant\u00a0Website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States Department of Labor recently announced the availability of the ApprenticeshipUSA State Expansion Grants, which provides $50.5 million worth of funding to help states expand and diversify apprenticeship opportunities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Apprenticeships provide pathways for a wide range of workers to acquire experience needed for career advancement in jobs in a diverse set of fields, including information technology, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, building trades, cybersecurity and business services.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-three grants will be awarded, and they will range from $700,000 to $3.2 million. The grants aim to help integrate apprenticeship into education and workforce systems as well as to provide\u00a0support to expand opportunities for groups typically under-represented in registered apprenticeships, such as\u00a0at-risk youth, women, people of color, Native Americans and individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Obama Administration is \u2018all in\u2019 on apprenticeship for a simple reason: it works,\u201d said U.S. Secretary of Labor, Thomas E. Perez. \u201cApprenticeships are a time-tested, earn-while-you-learn model that helps create opportunities for American workers to succeed while providing employers with the reliable pipeline of skilled talent they need to thrive in today\u2019s global economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This grant competition is the second phase of the department\u2019s $90 million funding, which was announced in April. Both of these phases build on last year\u2019s unprecedented $175 investment that was announced by the Obama administration last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Labor recently announced the availability of the ApprenticeshipUSA State Expansion Grants, which provides $50.5 million worth of funding to help states expand and diversify apprenticeship opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-apprenticeship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtwc.cee.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}