My plan for returning trade skills to K-12 educations. Resetting the focus for high school graduates to not just be going to college, but college or avoiding the debt trap that many programs and schools have become by instead entering the trades. Tackling our critical shortage of trained and skilled welders, fabricators, plumbers, electricians, pipe fitters, iron workers, et c. in the US.

Part of the reason it costs so much, and takes so long, for a contractor to come to your home to make a repair is because there are so few of them that they’re booked out for weeks. Even in industry, part of the reason Plant Vogtle in Georgia took so long and ran so far over budget is because there wasn’t enough trained tradesmen and women across the entire country who could do the work properly. Leading to a lot of it having to be demoed and replaced.