Living Wage, Diversity to Form Apprenticeship Program ‘Roadmap’

The Biden administration should prioritize giving federal funding opportunities to job training programs that pay living wages and meet diversity goals, a special advisory committee said.

The recommendations will be used as a “roadmap” by the Biden administration ahead of its plans to issue a proposal in June to update regulations governing the National Apprenticeship System, according to Brent Parton, acting head of the US Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration.

“There’s a lot of reports that get produced in the federal government and they take up real estate on shelves,” Parton told members of the federal Advisory Committee on ...