For eight years, Will Lake, a graduate of a small college in Helena, Mont., bounced from job to job, looking for a way to use his bachelor’s degree in psychology. He worked as a telephone salesman, a ...

While public sector apprenticeships have long flourished in other countries like Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and Australia, the vast majority of U.S. cities, counties and states ...

Emilee Ramirez, center foreground, attends an apprenticeship class at the Laborers Training School in Phoenix on March 19. (Heather Long/The Washington Post) PHOENIX — Emilee Ramirez has something ...

Strict rules for hiring and promotion tend to shut out apprenticeships from California government employment, but one state employee union has made the arrangements work, ushering employees into ...