Home Depot Invests $50 Million to Skilled Trades Trading, Citing Construction Worker Shortage - Sensationalist Headlines

[t]https://i.imgur.com/VQ2Az2a.jpg[/t] [quote]Today, The Home Depot Foundation announced a $50 million commitment to train 20,000 tradespeople over the next 10 years in order to fill the growing skilled labor gap. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently 158,000 unfilled construction sector jobs in the U.S. – a number that is expected to increase significantly as tradespeople retire over the next decade. The ratio of construction job openings to hirings, as measured by the Department of Labor, is at its highest level since 2007. In 2017, The Home Depot Foundation launched a pilot trades training program for separating military members in partnership with nonprofit Home Builders Institute (HBI) on Ft. Stewart and Ft. Bragg. The first set of students will graduate this March. The 12-week pre-apprenticeship certification program, which is provided at no cost to students, uses an industry-based curriculum recognized by the Department of Labor that integrates work-based learning with technical and academic skills. The program, which has a job placement rate of more than 90 percent, will now roll out on additional bases across the United States. "HBI has a 50-year history of training individuals with the skills they need to succeed in the building industry. Our program prepares men and women for high-growth careers in the industry after leaving military service," said HBI CEO John Courson. "With 200,000 service members separating from the military every year, our partnership with The Home Depot Foundation enables us to serve more veterans across the country." In addition to serving separating military members, The Home Depot Foundation is establishing an advanced level trades training program in partnership with the Construction Education Foundation of Georgia (CEFGA) for residents of Atlanta's Westside community. Over the next 10 years, the Foundation will expand training support to include the broader veteran community as well as underserved high schools across the United States.[/quote] [url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-home-depot-foundation-commits-50-million-to-skilled-trades-training-300610436.html]press release[/url]

A company doing more for unemployment, veterans & underprivileged children than the government... :thinking:

That's great. Good craftsmanship are just really underappreciated these days.

kinda rich coming from the company that actively campaigned for tax cuts that pulled money out of the school systems to give their ceo a bonus and buy back stock. [editline]8th March 2018[/editline] this is also the company that believes a 1 time 1000$* check is live changing

BRB applying. I need someone to pay for [I]something[/I] post secondary so I can stop being mired in a hell of underemplyoment and unemployment.

[QUOTE=Sableye;53186643]kinda rich coming from the company that actively campaigned for tax cuts that pulled money out of the school systems to give their ceo a bonus and buy back stock. [editline]8th March 2018[/editline] this is also the company that believes a 1 time 1000$* check is live changing[/QUOTE] I only got $100. I mean, the one time cash bonus was nice, but it's not going to help with my student payments longterm. I'd rather they had given me more hours with all this extra wealth, but oh well. [editline]8th March 2018[/editline] Also my other job is wallpapering and by god it is booming right now. There simply isn't enough skilled people in orange county to keep up with the demand, and it takes a while to train. A quarter of our jobs now are people who couldn't wait a month for us to come, hired some painters, painters fucked up installing wallpaper, and we have to re-do it.

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;53186460]A company doing more for unemployment, veterans & underprivileged children than the government... :thinking:[/QUOTE] with a market so free where the government is unofficially for sale, it's up to good people with money to make the change.

[QUOTE=Sableye;53186643]kinda rich coming from the company that actively campaigned for tax cuts that pulled money out of the school systems to give their ceo a bonus and buy back stock. [editline]8th March 2018[/editline] this is also the company that believes a 1 time 1000$* check is live changing[/QUOTE] Why do people keep thinking that corporations are our friends? They're emotionless tools for making money. Their only use is generating economic activity but without a proper framework of laws to limit their influence they become parasites on society.

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;53188676]Why do people keep thinking that corporations are our friends? They're emotionless tools for making money. Their only use is generating economic activity but without a proper framework of laws to limit their influence they become parasites on society.[/QUOTE] because the republican economic model is built on quite a few convenient assumptions like individuals will always skirt tax laws as the rates go up and companies will always invest their tax savings in meaningful ways, its convenient in that it makes their ideology work but not backed up by credible evidence.