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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. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27307 

Filed 11–19–24; 8:45 am] 

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