Josh Shapiro

So now 60%, six zero, 60% of all of our hires in state government don't have a college degree.

We've followed up on that by tripling our funding for VOTEC and CTE in our high schools.

are dramatically increasing our funding for apprenticeship programs.

62% of my adult population here in Pennsylvania do not have a college degree.

So we need to make sure we're investing in them so that they have opportunities.

You want to go learn to be a welder?

You're going to make six figures working in a shipyard in South Philadelphia.

You want to go and you want to work on HVAC system, you're going to work in some of our most complex life sciences construction jobs.

And you're going to make six figures doing that.

So for us, we fundamentally believe that you've got many pathways to opportunity here in Pennsylvania.

For some, it's going to college.

Great.

And for others, if you choose not to go to college, that's also great.

We're going to make sure that we pave the way for you and give you that opportunity.

Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not shitting on people that go to college.

I went to college.

I presume you went to go to college.

But for too long... By the way, politicians in both parties define success exclusively...

around the idea of you having to have a college degree and then set up arbitrary barriers to entry hey if you don't have a college degree you can't apply here what about the skills that you developed in the military what about the skills you developed at a trade school or the skills that you developed working in the private sector those skills should matter and now they do in pennsylvania and we're no longer taking an elitist approach that shuts people out just because they don't have a college degree we're giving them the keys to opportunity

and we're giving them opportunities to pursue more success here in Pennsylvania.