Education Reporter Tim Tooten at WBAL-TV in Baltimore reports from Lansdowne, Maryland that as the economy rebounds both in Maryland and across the Nation, there's become a need for more skilled Workers, which includes the field of Voice-Data-Video. Workers in Baltimore City are being trained through a popular Job Apprenticeship Program. It turns out the program helps meet the needs for Workers with slightly more technical skills. Since Summer, more than half a dozen residents have signed up to be trained in the field of Telecommunications, more specifically Voice Data-Video. "The reality is that our hospitals, the colleges - all of the spaces that we see and walk through every day utilize voice data video," Maryland State Senator Cory McCray (Democrat-Baltimore City) said. Maryland State Secretary of Labor Jim Rzepkowski recently helped kick-off the Job Training Apprenticeship Program through International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 24, a program in need of a reboot in Baltimore City. And it's already caught the attention of those being paid to learn. The first-class Voice-Data-Video class meets most evenings at the IBEW joint Apprenticeship and Training Center on West Patapsco Avenue. It's a program Rzepkowski believes is worth the investment: "With the workforce shortage out there, we're electrifying our residential and commercial world, buildings are being built smart and it's not just running electrical for heating and lights, it's about connecting the workplace.” Voice-Data-Video Apprentice Raymond Johnson said: "It gives you education that you would normally have to pay thousands of dollars every year for free and gives you a job at the same time."

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