{"id":1822,"date":"2013-02-07T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:10:08","slug":"apprentice-is-as-apprentice-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/apprentice-is-as-apprentice-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice is as apprentice does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Youth Unemployment Crisis: A Fix that Works and Pays for Itself<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/businessdesk\/2013\/02\/the-youth-unemployment-crisis.html\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/businessdesk\/2013\/02\/the-youth-unemployment-crisis.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apprenticeship can be a great idea.  However, it is not very different in concept from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indentured_servant\">indentured servitude<\/a> and that is subject to a lot of potential for abuse.  If there were regulations put in place to ensure that the apprentices were paid a living wage (it doesn&#8217;t all have to be cash, I recall stories from a German friend of mine who worked as an apprentice as a youth that he got room and board as part of his compensation) and had the ability to seek assistance when they felt they were being taken advantage of, then I could get wholly behind the idea.  I think for lots and lots of trades (even a lot of &#8216;cerebral&#8217; ones such as engineering) could greatly benefit from on the job training.  After all, isn&#8217;t that what co-ops are supposed to be in a lot of programs?  Why not formalize that and put the horse before the cart?  Instead of letting lazy students avoid co-ops and play all summer, make that the key point of the educational process and ensure that they have practical real-world experience before they graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Youth Unemployment Crisis: A Fix that Works and Pays for Itself http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/businessdesk\/2013\/02\/the-youth-unemployment-crisis.html Apprenticeship can be a great idea. However, it is not very different in concept from indentured servitude and that is subject to a lot of potential for abuse. If there were regulations put in place to ensure that the apprentices were paid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/apprentice-is-as-apprentice-does\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apprentice is as apprentice does&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,9,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-education","category-government","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}