Senator Amy Klobuchar's office issued this press release yesterday -- I've titled it "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!" above because I really think that when the Democrats work on the employment issue, they need to specifically and loudly publicize it. I don't care about the Russian hysteria. I spent the whole year speaking on campuses and very few students care about it. They do care about employment and the Dems, going into the mid-terms, better start stressing the issues that voters care about. This senator is working on employment, Senator Patty Murray, Senator Maria Cantwell, and many more are trying to address employment. The news media is not getting off the hysteria train, Dems better be stressing what they're doing on jobs because that is what many people care about. (In terms of the high school and college students we've spoken to across the country this year -- everywhere but Alaska, I just don't go there, sorry -- their number one concerns is will they have a job and there second issue is will Medicare be around when they're ready to retire. Russia does not even register except as a complaint that so much attention is focused on it.
Klobuchar-Backed Reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act Signed Into Law
July 31, 2018
The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act authorizes important updates to career and technical education
WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) announced today that the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act has been signed into law. The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act authorizes important updates to career and technical education to help more people enter the workforce with the skills they need to compete for high-skilled, in-demand careers. The legislation includes Klobuchar’s Career and Technical Education Research and Outreach Act of 2018 to authorize research into the best ways to promote career and technical education (CTE) to students, including the best ways to involve teachers, school counselors, and parents, and the effectiveness of different forms of CTE.
“In the 21st century economy, we need a 21st century education system that prepares our students for the jobs of tomorrow that our businesses are creating today,” Klobuchar said. “Reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Act will help ensure that students are prepared for successful careers in growing fields and make it easier for businesses to find workers with the right skills for the jobs they have available.”
Klobuchar has led national efforts to expand apprenticeship opportunities and strengthen Minnesota’s workforce. Klobuchar’s bipartisan American Apprenticeship Act would help create and expand pre-apprenticeship and registered apprenticeship programs. She has introduced the bipartisan Skills Investment Act of 2018 to expand Coverdell Education Savings Accounts—tax advantaged savings accounts for educational expenses—so American workers could use the accounts to pay for skills training, career-related learning, and professional development. The Klobuchar-backed Apprenticeship and Jobs Training Act of 2017 would create a tax incentive for businesses to embrace apprenticeship programs, accelerate the adoption of the apprenticeship model, and boost training and education available to workers. In 2015, Klobuchar successfully pushed for a $5 million grant from the Department of Labor to strengthen partnerships between Minnesota community colleges and local businesses and expand apprenticeship programs. The Minnesota Apprenticeship Initiative (MAI) was launched with the funding Klobuchar helped secure and will provide training for apprentices in growing fields like advanced manufacturing, agriculture, health care services, information technology, and transportation. Minnesota recently received an additional $1.8 million federal apprenticeship grant to continue expanding registered apprenticeships throughout Minnesota.
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