IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/fip/fedrrf/103662.html

Cover Story: Apprenticeships for Rural America

Author

Listed:
  • Halina de Jong-Lambert

Abstract

Apprenticeships, as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), "combine paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction to prepare workers for highly-skilled careers." Many potential apprentices are attracted to the path by the direct pipeline it offers to steady work. ApprenticeshipsUSA, a DOL informational resource on apprenticeships, estimates that 93 percent of apprentices in Registered Apprenticeships are hired by their training company after completing the program. Registered Apprenticeships are programs that meet certain DOL standards, including being industry vetted and paid, providing structured job training, and offering supplemental classroom education.

Suggested Citation

  • Halina de Jong-Lambert, 2026. "Cover Story: Apprenticeships for Rural America," Econ Focus, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, vol. 26(Q3), pages 14-17, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedrrf:103662
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/RichmondFedOrg/publications/research/econ_focus/2026/q3/feature2.pdf
    File Function: Journal Article
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fip:fedrrf:103662. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christian Pascasio (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/frbrius.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.