Presidential Document2024-27307
National Apprenticeship Week, 2024
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Published
November 20, 2024
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November 15, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 224 (Wednesday, November 20, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 91527-91528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27307]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 224 / Wednesday, November 20, 2024 /
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Proclamation 10860 of November 15, 2024
National Apprenticeship Week, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
America's workers are the best in the world--and that
is in no small part due to our exceptional Registered
Apprenticeship programs. During National Apprenticeship
Week, we recommit to supporting these programs, which
put so many Americans on a path to securing good-paying
jobs and helping build the industries of the future.
I have often said that the middle class built America
and unions built the middle class, and Registered
Apprenticeship programs--including the hundreds of
union-run programs--have produced some of our Nation's
most skilled workers for generations. Registered
Apprenticeships empower workers to hone their skills or
gain new ones by allowing them to earn while they learn
and connecting them to good-paying jobs. These
apprenticeships have given so many of our workers the
opportunity to work with dignity and care for their
families all while training our workforce to build the
industries of our future, like clean energy or
cybersecurity.
My Administration made the largest Federal investment
in our Nation's history in Registered Apprenticeships.
Since taking office, we have invested more than $730
million to expand Registered Apprenticeships, leading
to the hiring of more than one million apprentices
across the country. More than $80 billion has been
committed from my American Rescue Plan to strengthen
and expand the workforce, including to expand
Registered Apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship
programs. We are also creating opportunities for
apprentices through our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
and our Inflation Reduction Act, which provides strong
incentives for employers to hire Registered Apprentices
in their clean energy projects.
Further, my Administration is making sure that
Registered Apprentices are helping build the industries
of the future and fulfill needs in critical industries.
Our Advanced Manufacturing Sprint and Investing in
America Workforce Hubs launched intensive drives to
build a diverse, skilled pipeline of workers for
advanced manufacturing jobs, including union jobs--many
of which do not require a 4-year college degree. To do
that, we have been bringing together unions, local
governments, employers, training providers, K-12
schools, community colleges, and other stakeholders to
train and connect workers to jobs in high-demand
sectors. For teachers, my Administration has helped
expand teacher Registered Apprenticeship programs to 46
States, to help train the next generation of educators.
For construction workers, the Department of Labor's
Scaling Apprenticeship Readiness Across the Building
Trades Initiative is enrolling thousands of Americans
to help rebuild our Nation's roads, bridges, and
highways. For truck drivers, we held a 90-Day Trucking
Apprenticeship Challenge, which helped get more drivers
on the road. And for cybersecurity professionals, we
completed a 120-Day Cybersecurity Apprenticeship
Sprint, which has helped thousands get hired in
industries that protect Americans from cyberthreats.
My Administration is also ensuring our Registered
Apprentices reflect the diversity of America. Our
Apprenticeship Ambassador Initiative is working with
more than 200 organizations committed to hiring 10,000
new apprentices and recruiting people from historically
underrepresented communities
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for apprenticeship programs. And through the Department
of Labor's Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional
Occupations grant program, we are continuing to invest
in women in the skilled trades, who are too often
underrepresented. Thanks to these efforts, the number
of women in apprenticeships will soon surpass 100,000
for the first time ever.
Supporting Registered Apprenticeships is about doing
what our Nation does best--investing in America and
America's workers. This week, we celebrate apprentices
nationwide, whose hard work has contributed so much to
our Nation's economy and prosperity. May we continue to
support these programs, which have created endless
possibilities for Americans.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 17
through November 23, 2024, as National Apprenticeship
Week. I urge the Congress, State and local governments,
educational institutions, industry and labor leaders,
apprentices, and all Americans to support Registered
Apprenticeship programs in the United States of America
and to raise awareness of their importance in building
a diverse and robust workforce to strengthen our
national economy.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.
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