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Colleen Connolly

Lima, Minneapolis
As seen in: The Guardian, USA Today, Yahoo News, Chicago Tribune, Fast Company, Flipboard, Smithsonian Magazine, Yahoo, WNBC-TV (New York, NY), STAT and
Freelance journalist. Words in @TheImprintNews, @SmithsonianMag, @guardian, etc. Hablo español. Now in 🇵🇪 Past: @chicagotribune, @LatAmDispatch, @GloJo_NYU

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One Million Apprentices

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By Elyse Ashburn, Paul Fain, Colleen Connolly
| workshift.org
Marek Laco answers questions about the administration’s goal to hit 1M registered apprentices and shares thoughts on the progress to date. Also, views from across the pond on the U.S. push for apprenticeship degrees, an idea for tapping Labor Department data to spur innovation, and Bill Gates on reserving jobs for humans. (Subscribe here.) President Trump issued an executive order in April of 2025 that set a goal of reaching 1M new active apprentices in the registered system.
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Top-level nurses can’t finish their degrees because of a severe shortage of mentors

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By Colleen Connolly
| The Hechinger Report Verified
This story also appeared in STAT CHICAGO — Midway through her graduate nursing program, Yesenia Raithel Vargas made a desperate plea to a Facebook group for other moms in Chicago: Does anyone know a licensed therapist willing to let her sit in on sessions and work with their clients under their supervision? It was a strange ask in the therapy world, which is one reason Raithel Vargas had resorted to Facebook.
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Top-level nurses can’t finish their degrees because of a severe shortage of mentors

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By Colleen Connolly
| Flipboard
12 hours ago As parents across the country prepare to wave their children off to university, conversations about family finances and the cost of living are growing ever more frequent - and fervent. Yet every year, millions of pounds worth of scholarships and bursary funding goes unclaimed by students - with many …
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