About 14% of those in the apprenticeship program found permanent full-time employment with the transit agency, a Sun-Times investigation found. Others, some strung along for years, remained in low-paying roles with no benefits.
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need to go to college and that these trade jobs are not for them, not as good paying, this isn t the future. is it just changing? well, it s a demographic issue. baby boomers are retiring at a greater rate than we can recruit more people into the industry and industry is doing all it can to bring more people in the trades, including apprenticeship programs, second chancers, incarcerated people second careers, getting into the pipeline in the construction industry but a broader issue in our culture which is schools push people to colleges and they don t consider putting people into the trades. where you can earn while you learn you don t go into debt which is crippling so many of our young people and it s a great opportunity to climb the ladder of entrepreneurship. you can start in the trades and then eventually go on to owning a small business and grow and rebuild your community. it is an american success, more people need to get into the