Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades: Skilled trades shaped America's past. Here's how they can build America's future

Key Points:

• Four major organizations—BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford Motor Company, and Google—have formed the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades to address the projected shortage of 2.1 million skilled trades workers by 2030 across various industries.
• The Alliance aims to build a pipeline for skilled trades by expanding access and exposure to these careers, targeting both students and adult learners, and promoting apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships as debt-free pathways to economic mobility.
• They plan to use evidence-based strategies by sharing best practices and co-funding a Skilled Trades Report with partners like Burning Glass Institute and Jobs for the Future to track workforce gaps and progress.
• The initiative emphasizes collaboration with labor unions, trade associations, nonprofits, and educational institutions to scale training programs and create sustainable career opportunities nationwide.
• The Alliance aspires to grow by inviting more public and private entities to join, aiming to strengthen America’s infrastructure workforce and foster long-term economic success for future generations.