Frances Mize at vtdigger.com reports on the State of Vermont’s Vermont Rural Water Association, which manages a State-registered, two-year Apprenticeship that provides training and hundreds of hours of classroom instruction that are required to pass a licensing test.  Increasingly, officials and employers are also using the model as an Apprenticeship tool to rebuild the State’s severely hobbled workforce.  Vermont has one of the most severe labor shortages in the country, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  Prior to the Coronavirus Pandemic, the labor market was stable, but in the years since, it has dipped below its pre-pandemic level and the national average.  According to July data, there are two jobs for every one unemployed person in Vermont.

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