A program designed to dilute the effectiveness of Union Apprenticeship Programs has been ended by the Biden Administration. The White House stopped the Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Program (IRAP), which intended to move much of the supervision of such workforce initiatives to industry groups. The Biden administration was "concerned that the IRAP program creates a redundant apprenticeship program, with duplicate and often inferior systems that compete with the highly successful and longstanding Registered Apprenticeship Program.
