Politicians call for more apprenticeships to fill need for skilled labor

New Jersey’s federal and state politicians are proposing plans to expand apprenticeship programs, through public-private partnership funding, in order to fill skilled labor jobs that remain vacant in the U.S. Though there are roughly 10 million unemployed individuals in the country, 4 million jobs exist in manufacturing and other skilled labor jobs, according to U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).