Whereas workplace changes have profoundly altered and increased the skills required of workers and managers; and
Whereas schools are struggling to improve the basic skills of the school-age population drawn increasingly from "at risk" households where children tend to leave school early; and
Whereas many noncollege-bound youth, especially women and minorities, spend their first years after high school unemployed or job-hopping from one low-skills job to another, with a consequent loss in productivity and access to career-oriented learning; and
Whereas most new jobs that will be created in the 1990s will require some postsecondary education; and
Whereas the economic position of "The Forgotten Half" -- noncollege-bound high school graduates -- is deteriorating, with real earnings declining by twenty-eight percent (28%) from 1973 to 1986, while the earnings of college graduates have risen; and
Whereas most employers in the United States lack a tradition of strong employee training;
Now, therefore, the State of Arkansas has determined that the establishment of a youth apprenticeship program can contribute significantly to addressing these problems by providing Arkansas's noncollege-bound young people with additional opportunities to develop meaningful job skills.
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