It’s dinnertime, and a teenager is seated with her immediate family. She looks around — everyone has at least a college degree and a stable job. What to look for in a college and what to major in and how to become a doctor are the topics of tonight’s dinner conversation. Elsewhere, another high-schooler is seated with her younger brother chomping down on the meal she struggled to put together for the two of them. Her parents are away, working their second or third jobs.

People in that second example typically lack a reliable means for entering the workforce outside of traditional college — and college can’t address everyone’s needs, especially those who have immediate fiscal obligations. Apprenticeships could be one solution. Apprenticeship programs enjoy bipartisan support, with the Democratic Obama administration investing millions of dollars in them and the Republican Trump administration prioritizing their expansion; Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has expressed support for skills-training programs, too, including apprenticeships.

The United States has plenty of room for more apprenticeship programs, according to a new study co-published by Harvard Business School and the labor-market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies. While apprenticeships in the country are relatively common in 27 different occupations — mostly concentrated in construction and extraction (i.e., mining) — it is possible to develop them in nearly 50 others.

Read the full article about apprenticeship programs and overemphasizing college degrees by Lolade Fadulu at The Atlantic.