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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 224 (Wednesday, November 20, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 91527-91528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27307]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 224 / Wednesday, November 20, 2024 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Proclamation 10860 of November 15, 2024

                
National Apprenticeship Week, 2024

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                America's workers are the best in the world--and that 
                is in no small part due to our exceptional Registered 
                Apprenticeship programs. During National Apprenticeship 
                Week, we recommit to supporting these programs, which 
                put so many Americans on a path to securing good-paying 
                jobs and helping build the industries of the future.

                I have often said that the middle class built America 
                and unions built the middle class, and Registered 
                Apprenticeship programs--including the hundreds of 
                union-run programs--have produced some of our Nation's 
                most skilled workers for generations. Registered 
                Apprenticeships empower workers to hone their skills or 
                gain new ones by allowing them to earn while they learn 
                and connecting them to good-paying jobs. These 
                apprenticeships have given so many of our workers the 
                opportunity to work with dignity and care for their 
                families all while training our workforce to build the 
                industries of our future, like clean energy or 
                cybersecurity.

                My Administration made the largest Federal investment 
                in our Nation's history in Registered Apprenticeships. 
                Since taking office, we have invested more than $730 
                million to expand Registered Apprenticeships, leading 
                to the hiring of more than one million apprentices 
                across the country. More than $80 billion has been 
                committed from my American Rescue Plan to strengthen 
                and expand the workforce, including to expand 
                Registered Apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship 
                programs. We are also creating opportunities for 
                apprentices through our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law 
                and our Inflation Reduction Act, which provides strong 
                incentives for employers to hire Registered Apprentices 
                in their clean energy projects.

                Further, my Administration is making sure that 
                Registered Apprentices are helping build the industries 
                of the future and fulfill needs in critical industries. 
                Our Advanced Manufacturing Sprint and Investing in 
                America Workforce Hubs launched intensive drives to 
                build a diverse, skilled pipeline of workers for 
                advanced manufacturing jobs, including union jobs--many 
                of which do not require a 4-year college degree. To do 
                that, we have been bringing together unions, local 
                governments, employers, training providers, K-12 
                schools, community colleges, and other stakeholders to 
                train and connect workers to jobs in high-demand 
                sectors. For teachers, my Administration has helped 
                expand teacher Registered Apprenticeship programs to 46 
                States, to help train the next generation of educators. 
                For construction workers, the Department of Labor's 
                Scaling Apprenticeship Readiness Across the Building 
                Trades Initiative is enrolling thousands of Americans 
                to help rebuild our Nation's roads, bridges, and 
                highways. For truck drivers, we held a 90-Day Trucking 
                Apprenticeship Challenge, which helped get more drivers 
                on the road. And for cybersecurity professionals, we 
                completed a 120-Day Cybersecurity Apprenticeship 
                Sprint, which has helped thousands get hired in 
                industries that protect Americans from cyberthreats.

                My Administration is also ensuring our Registered 
                Apprentices reflect the diversity of America. Our 
                Apprenticeship Ambassador Initiative is working with 
                more than 200 organizations committed to hiring 10,000 
                new apprentices and recruiting people from historically 
                underrepresented communities

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                for apprenticeship programs. And through the Department 
                of Labor's Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional 
                Occupations grant program, we are continuing to invest 
                in women in the skilled trades, who are too often 
                underrepresented. Thanks to these efforts, the number 
                of women in apprenticeships will soon surpass 100,000 
                for the first time ever.

                Supporting Registered Apprenticeships is about doing 
                what our Nation does best--investing in America and 
                America's workers. This week, we celebrate apprentices 
                nationwide, whose hard work has contributed so much to 
                our Nation's economy and prosperity. May we continue to 
                support these programs, which have created endless 
                possibilities for Americans.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
                of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 17 
                through November 23, 2024, as National Apprenticeship 
                Week. I urge the Congress, State and local governments, 
                educational institutions, industry and labor leaders, 
                apprentices, and all Americans to support Registered 
                Apprenticeship programs in the United States of America 
                and to raise awareness of their importance in building 
                a diverse and robust workforce to strengthen our 
                national economy.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                ninth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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