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An apprentice arrives ready to work, but the supervisor doesn’t know which skills the apprentice is supposed to practice. A mentor provides useful feedback, but it never reaches the person responsible for tracking progress. A classroom lesson introduces a new

Progress is slower than you expected. Your apprenticeship program has a training plan, an instructional partner, and employees willing to learn. Yet apprentices wait for assignments, mentors struggle to find time, and small problems require too many conversations to resolve.

America does not lack workforce programs, investment or good intentions. Federal and state governments spend substantial resources on training, apprenticeships, career and technical education and other efforts intended to help people find better jobs and employers find the people they

Pennsylvania is investing in jobs, skills, education and training. The challenge will be to make them work as one economic strategy. Economic development is usually described in the language of investment. A company expands. A new employer chooses a region.