Career Pathways: How to Create Better Alternatives to College - TAYLOR MAAG

To pay well as the program requirements, to ensure for it, PPI’s new report, Cutting Costs and registered apprenticeships are more agile Boosting Growth: A Visionary Blueprint for a and responsive to the changing needs of Fairer and More Prosperous America contains employers while still ensuring quality for a host of proposals for spending restraint participating apprentices. [...] Going — giving America’s current and future workers forward, America’s future workers need a more the opportunity to use federal aid for educational affordable and agile higher education system, opportunities best poised to meet their needs and the needs of the labor market.31 one that is not so reliant on the traditional four- year degree and ensures individuals are able To do this, PPI proposes. [...] career pathways system for youth and adult PPI proposes a novel approach to help workers learners, our nation needs policies that remove escape the low-wage trap: build on the proven barriers to work — making it easier for workers success of the Earned Income Tax Credit throughout their lifetime to stay attached to the (EITC) to give more low-wage workers a raise.50 labor market. [...] Male low-wage workers are much more likely PPI would also give workers the option to reduce to work in the construction trades and operate their income tax withholding by up to the full motor vehicles, while low-wage female workers value of their expected LWTC throughout the are much more likely to work in administrative year to help pay their monthly expenses. [...] incentives to stay in the labor market.53 This Researchers who study this note that broad dynamic leads to chronic staffing shortages, licensing restricts the supply of labor, thereby contributing to the higher prices consumers pay reducing competition, driving up the wages of for these services.54 The LWTC makes work in licensed workers, and increasing the cost of their lower-wage industries like.