Small businesses and industries in every economic sector are dealing with workforce shortages. Although there is no one cause, we know there is a massive gap between the job requirements and skills in a 21st century economy, and people trained to meet those prerequisites.

To help alleviate those issues, Senator King worked with her colleagues to pass a number of bills to increase opportunity through drastically scaling up apprenticeship training programs across the State and connect more young people to those experiences. And expanded the applicability of a tax credit to employers who hire individuals with disabilities to make those jobs more accessible.