Another Voice: Apprenticeships build ladders to middle class
Debt-free degrees are a “pipe” dream – but not the kind you’re thinking of. Each year, 170,000 Americans enroll in apprenticeship programs to learn trades – like pipefitting, bricklaying and plumbing – that will catapult them to the middle class. These tradesmen-in-training not only avoid crippling student debt, they actually “earn while they learn.” And…