My first stop in Minnesota after becoming Senator was at Wyoming Machine, a local sheet metal fabricator. Like many businesses and manufacturers in Minnesota, Wyoming Machine wants to hire more people, but they’re having trouble finding workers with the right skills.
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Today I met students participating in a STEP, a technical training program located on the Anoka Technical College campus, that does exactly this.pic.twitter.com/lLFhjRLepu
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STEP partners with local businesses to teach students high demand skills that help them to land good paying jobs without a four year degree or loads of college debt.pic.twitter.com/3erzZgYySL
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Thanks, STEP, for a great visit, and for inspiring me to keep pushing for legislation that promotes more of what we already know works: job-training partnerships between schools and local businesses.
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