Voters Back Skilled Trades, Apprenticeships, and a New Path Forward.
Key Takeaways
- There is overwhelming, bipartisan support for expanding apprenticeship programs, with Republicans, Democrats, and Independents all in strong agreement.
- Broad, cross-partisan consensus exists for offering tax incentives to businesses that create apprenticeship positions.
- A majority of Americans support shifting cultural emphasis away from four-year degrees toward alternative pathways.
- Americans strongly prefer private-sector or public-private partnership leadership in developing apprenticeship programs, with the federal government ranking last as the least preferred option.
Voters overwhelmingly support expanding apprenticeship programs, tax incentives for businesses that create them, and shifting away from the four-year degree as the default pathway to the middle class.