{"id":6207,"date":"2022-02-22T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:40:05","slug":"which-pays-more-apprenticeship-of-college-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2022\/02\/22\/which-pays-more-apprenticeship-of-college-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Pays More: Apprenticeship or College Degree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How about we call it a draw &#8211; student loan costs!\u00a0 UCOMMblog.com has all the exciting details in <a href=\"https:\/\/ucommblog.com\/section\/good-jobs-now\/union-apprenticeship-rivals-college-degree\">Union Apprenticeship Rivals College Degree.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"Titleh3\"><strong>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/illinoisepi.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/09\/ilepi-union-apprentices-equal-college-degrees-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study<\/a>\u00a0by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute found that a union apprenticeship may be a better ticket to the middle class than a traditional four-year degree.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;College is a great option for some, but it&#8217;s not the only path to a family-sustaining career, nor is it necessarily the best,&#8221; said International President Lonnie R. Stephenson. &#8220;For a lot of people, a union apprenticeship is the smarter, more fulfilling way to go \u2014 and it doesn&#8217;t come with thousands of dollars in student loans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study analyzed 10 years of data from the Current Population Survey&#8217;s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, which is released by the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Census Bureau. Among its findings was that, on average, graduates of joint labor-management, or union, apprenticeship programs in the construction industry can achieve near wage and benefits parity with other types of workers with four-year college degrees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.pixabay.com%2Fphoto%2F2015%2F06%2F14%2F10%2F31%2Ftraffic-sign-808760_960_720.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1\" alt=\"Traffic Sign Directory Training \u00b7 Free image on Pixabay\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(free image via pixabay.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about we call it a draw &#8211; student loan costs!\u00a0 UCOMMblog.com has all the exciting details in Union Apprenticeship Rivals College Degree. A\u00a0new study\u00a0by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute found that a union apprenticeship may be a better ticket to the middle class than a traditional four-year degree. &#8220;College is a great option for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-news","category-union-made"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6210,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/6210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}