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Job Skills Gap

  Chris Book performs poses in the cowling of a Jet engine of a Boeing 737 at the AAR in Indianapolis, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Book, laid off as an assistant manager at a Wal-Mart store in Indianapolis in 2008, was accepted into the first class of a sheet metal apprentice program at AAR. AAR officials say they created the program because public schools and two-year colleges aren’t producing enough qualified workers to fill the available skilled jobs. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Chris Book performs poses in the cowling of a Jet engine of a Boeing 737 at the AAR in Indianapolis, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Book, laid off as an assistant manager at a Wal-Mart store in Indianapolis in 2008, was accepted into the first class of a sheet metal apprentice program at AAR. AAR officials say they created the program because public schools and two-year colleges aren’t producing enough qualified workers to fill the available skilled jobs. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)