First day of apprenticeship…😜🐶🐑
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Zach Boren
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Dad to daughters. Liz’s husband. Apprenticeship champion. Former Hoosier in Upper MoCo. Sr. Policy Manager . Views are my own.
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A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened
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Sometime the gap between where we are and where we need to be seems impossible.
It's time to do the impossible. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #tech #renewables #nature #GreenNewDeal
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An unfortunate dearth of facts about registered apprenticeships; Praises skill programs (registered apprenticeships) by IBM, Amazon, Google then says they don't work. And, that we need to bring back a fraud-riddled program from the Trump Era.
How are registered #apprenticeships expanding access to high-quality careers in tech? Hear from employers, apprentices, & educators who have launched tech apprenticeships and & on what we've learned, 6/22, 3-4:30p ET:
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FYI this isn't stopping. There have been 18 mass shootings SINCE Uvalde.
You need to know this. Because it's not going to stop until we do something.
1/ Here's just a sampling of the slaughter in the last six days:
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Listen, I'm full of sadness and fury right now. That's what you're seeing here.
But I'm also determined. And pragmatic. If there is a single of my GOP colleagues who is moved to action by what happened today, I am ready to work with you. I am ready to compromise. To save lives.
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Sen. Chris Murphy delivers remarks on Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting: “What are we doing? What are we doing?…This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day." abcn.ws/3sVDH2F
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It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.
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Finally my generation getting the attention and credit it deserves!!!
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New: GenX is the most lead-poisoned generation, according to a new estimate. The average GenXer's childhood lead exposure has shaved *nearly 6 points* off their IQ thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/the-leaded-g
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This weekend I lay in this “messy” un-mown lawn for 20mins and had SUCH a good time. A tiny area absolutely fizzing with colourful, scuttling, buzzing, humming life. I laughed, I squealed with joy. I smiled at a speedwell and cried a little bit at a beetle. #NoMowMay is magic 🥺
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Why is taking advertising dollars from while railing against climate change? It’s literally telling your kids don’t smoke, and meanwhile you publicly hang with Joe Camel. What gives?
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Lycaena thersamon. Has the rubbish English name ‘Lesser’ Fiery Copper.
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In these times we could all use a breath. (sound on)
Nature is amazing. Protect it in all its forms.
#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #oceans #whales #nature #rewilding
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We love wildlife crossings! This wildlife crossing over Highway 191 in #Wyoming provides safe passage for #pronghorns and other wildlife. According to the state, wildlife-vehicle collisions have been cut by more than 85% thanks to the crossing.
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a travesty
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Delta Air Lines diverted a shipment of five million honeybees bound for Alaska to Atlanta and left the bee shipment out on a hot tarmac. Local beekeepers tried to come to the rescue, but very few survived. “This is just such a waste, an absolute tragedy.” nyti.ms/3KyeiSS
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This shooting at a children’s baseball game in Charleston, South Carolina, isn’t an anomaly. This is America’s new normal, enabled by greedy gun lobbyists and lawmaker allies. And if they have their way, no one will be safe anywhere.
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fastest-warming city: reno, nevada (+7.7 degrees since 1970)
fastest-warming state: alaska (+4.3 degrees)
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No one should have to choose between their livelihoods and the health of their loved ones.
Now, they won't have to.
Thank you and the General Assembly for once again doing the heavy lifting to deliver long overdue paid family and medical leave to Marylanders!
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WE DID IT. Paid Family Leave is now law. Our Senate colleagues already overrode the Governor's veto, and just now the House did too! #DemocratsDeliver #MDGA22 #PaidLeave #TimeToCareAct
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We did it!!!!
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VICTORY! Following tireless years of advocacy from our volunteers, a bill prohibiting ghost guns will become law tonight in Maryland!
This bipartisan bill is critical to keeping ghost guns out of our communities, our schools, and—most importantly—away from our kids. #mdpolitics
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“We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there we were organizing a union”
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I grew up in construction. It's what I knew.
For kids who aren't like me, better apprenticeship and skills training programs could open doors to opportunities and make the American dream possible for even more people.
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We're not going to get in a bidding war, and we're not going to be proposing $1.2 billion for them to build a new stadium. If Virginia wants to do that and they want to go to Virginia, I would say, 'good luck.'
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#3. Ensure local, diverse hiring and good jobs in federal infrastructure projects. (via , Jacqueline Rayfield)
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A Word about Time.
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why don’t any of the bad people have burnout
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Join on Monday, November 8 at 3 PM for an early start to National Apprenticeship Week. The event discusses the evidence behind quality mentorships and the real experiences of mentors and apprentices.
#LiveAtUrban on Monday: Join thought leaders, industry specialists, mentors, and apprentices as they discuss the challenges and practical implementation of mentoring for youth apprentices. #NAW2021
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Happy 97th birthday to President Jimmy Carter:
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In Maine, rural apprentices are fighting climate change through solar apprenticeships and making good money, while doing it. It's hope amid a pretty brutal news cycle.
Electric scooters are nice. But I could use some more gondola rides. #dcgondola
The workforce development team at the Urban Institute is hiring a Senior Research Associate. Please share around and apply.
urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Urban-Ca
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How can employers and apprenticeship program sponsors set appropriate wage schedules that reward apprentices for gaining skills, motivate them to gain competencies, & prepare them professionally? & offer tips:
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CLIMATE CRISIS: Nearly all CO2 emissions in Montgomery County come from residential and commercial building energy use (50%) and local transportation (42%).
We need to green our infrastructure as quickly as possible. There's no time to waste.
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was a tireless champion for U.S. workers; he dedicated his life to ensuring more Americans could attain the American Dream. He’ll be sorely missed. politico.com/news/2021/08/0 via
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Our apprenticeship team found the secret sauce in ME, AZ, MO and MS to the skills gap in rural America. The secret? Youth apprenticeship can work for small business with the right tools. More in our report: urban.org/sites/default/ #apprenticeshipswork #rural