{"id":889,"date":"2022-09-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americancompass.beckandstone.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2023-12-24T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T17:37:55","slug":"policy-in-brief-the-workforce-training-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americancompass.org\/policy-in-brief-the-workforce-training-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Talkin\u2019 (Policy) Shop: The Workforce Training Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the inaugural episode of Policy in Brief, American Compass executive director Oren Cass is joined by policy director Chris Griswold to discuss the Workforce Training Grant, a proposal to create a meaningful alternative pathway to college for the majority of young Americans who are being left behind by the current &#8220;college-for-all&#8221; model. They discuss the failings of our current system, how a program connecting trainees with employers would work, and the bill recently introduced by Senator Cotton that was modeled off of this proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-11305079\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1080440\/11305079-policy-in-brief-the-workforce-training-grant.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-11305079&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Further reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/americancompass.org\/essays\/workforce-training-grant-policy-brief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Workforce Training Grant Policy Brief<\/a> (American Compass)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/americancompass.org\/essays\/workforce-training-grant-policy-brief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The full Workforce Training Grant white paper<\/a> (American Compass)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/americancompass.org\/the-commons\/rebuilding-from-the-college-catastrophe-starts-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rebuilding from the College Catastrophe Starts Here<\/a> (Oren Cass, American Compass)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cotton-bill-overhauls-workforce-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Workforce Act<\/a> (Sen. Tom Cotton)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/18\/opinion\/republican-congress-agenda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Republicans Should Do if They Win Big This Fall<\/a> (Oren Cass and Chris Griswold, <em>New York Times<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/after-student-debt-relief-america-must-move-beyond-college-all-opinion-1741539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">After Student-Debt Relief, America Must Move Beyond &#8216;College for All&#8217;<\/a> (Wells King, <em>Newsweek<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the inaugural episode of Policy in Brief, American Compass executive director Oren Cass is joined by policy director Chris Griswold to discuss the Workforce Training Grant, a proposal to create a meaningful alternative pathway to college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[290,6,269,326],"tags":[32,28],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - 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