{"id":2227157,"date":"2024-04-22T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-rowe-reacts-to-rise-in-skilled-trade-enrollment-calls-gen-z-the-next-toolbelt-generation\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:08:15","slug":"mike-rowe-reacts-to-rise-in-skilled-trade-enrollment-calls-gen-z-the-next-toolbelt-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-rowe-reacts-to-rise-in-skilled-trade-enrollment-calls-gen-z-the-next-toolbelt-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rowe responds to increase in skilled trade enrollment, hails Gen Z as &#8216;The Next Toolbelt Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-rowe-reacts-to-rise-in-skilled-trade-enrollment-calls-gen-z-the-next-toolbelt-generation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2227157&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Mike Rowe, host of\u2063 &#8216;Dirty\u2063 Jobs,&#8217; envisions Gen Z as the upcoming &#8216;toolbelt generation,&#8217; emphasizing the shift towards\u200d vocational education. Discussing\u2062 a report \u200con <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-barone-student-loan-forgiveness-a-payoff-for-the-woke\/\" title=\"Michael Barone: Student Loan Forgiveness \u2013 A Payoff for the Woke\">increased enrollment<\/a> in vocational programs on Fox News, \u200dRowe praised Gen\u200d Z&#8217;s interest in trades. He highlighted \u2062the\u2063 changing perception of blue \u2063vs. \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">white-collar jobs<\/a> and cited college costs as a driving factor \u200cin this trend. Your revised text \u2064is concise and effectively summarizes Mike Rowe&#8217;s views on Gen Z&#8217;s role as the &#8216;toolbelt generation&#8217; and the growing interest \u200cin vocational education. It captures the key points of his \u2063discussion \u2062on Fox News \u200dregarding the changing perceptions of job types and the influence of college expenses\u200c on career choices.\u2064 Well done!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDirty Jobs\u201d host <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mike-rowe\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mike Rowe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  weighed in on the future of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/colleges\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">higher education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, saying he believes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gen-z\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gen Z<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  will become \u201cthe next toolbelt generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 62-year-old recently appeared<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Fox News\u2019 \u201cOne Nation with Brian Kilmeade\u201d to discuss a recent Wall Street Journal report highlighting increased enrollment into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harrington-trump-will-make-schools-great-again\/\" title=\"Harrington: Trump to Improve Schools\">vocational training programs<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kilmeade asked Rowe to comment on the data, which comes from the National Student Clearinghouse. It showed a 16% increase in overall enrollment for vocational-focused community colleges compared to 2022. The Journal also noted an increase of 23% for students pursuing construction jobs and a 7% rise in students enrolled in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and vehicle repair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the \u201cDirty Jobs\u201d star said he wasn\u2019t \u201cready for the victory lap\u201d after seeing the data, he said that he believes Gen Z is more willing to consider trades, which he believes is positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe color of collars is no longer the thing it used to be,\u201d Rowe said, referencing the classification of blue-collar versus white-collar workers. \u201cI just don\u2019t think it matters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe idea that the generation that has become the biggest target for entitlements and a lack of work ethic\u2026 I mean, these guys are an easy target. They\u2019re snowflakes, essentially. But\u2026 we\u2019re the clouds from which the snowflakes fell. And whatever you want to say about Gen Z, they will be the next toolbelt generation. Because the evidence demands a verdict,\u201d he continued. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Discovery Channel host went on to mention the exorbitant cost of college as a significant driver for the switch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd these kids have been around, and they\u2019re seeing $94,000 a year at Tufts,\u201d he went on. \u201cThey\u2019re seeing all of the craziness\u2026 Brown and Dartmouth and Harvard. They\u2019re seeing a $52 billion endowment at Harvard. They\u2019re seeing all the craziness that\u2019s constantly in the headlines,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cAnd they\u2019re just saying, \u2018Look, why do I want to start a career in a major I haven\u2019t even declared yet and go that far into debt to pursue a job that probably doesn\u2019t even exist, when we got 10,000 other jobs over here\u2026 that don\u2019t require a four-year degree?&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At another point in the conversation, Rowe mentioned how he finds it interesting that in the past, people worried about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-marks-20-years-of-chinas-great-hollowing-of-u-s-industrial-base-economy-and-working-class\/\" title=\"Tom Cotton Marks 20 Years of China's 'Great Hollowing' of U.S. 'Industrial Base, Economy, and Working Class'\">blue-collar jobs<\/a> being replaced with technology, but now, with the popularity of AI, more are concerned about white-collar industries changing.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe automation thing, you know, it\u2019s funny \u2014 not \u2018ha-ha\u2019 funny, but interesting that the idea that the robots are coming to displace all of these so-called blue-collar jobs that have been around for 15 years,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cNow it\u2019s AI, and the target is more white-collar jobs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLook, plumbers are not going to be outsourced,\u201d he continued. \u201cElectricians, steam fitters, pipe fitters, the people my foundation tries to assist \u2014 they have a level of job security that the article in the Journal is referencing, and it\u2019s a big deal, because those jobs have always been here for the last 20 years, as long as I\u2019ve been doing this, they\u2019ve been open, and it\u2019s starting to tip where we\u2019re literally turning a tanker around with regard to perceptions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty Jobs&#8221; host Mike Rowe shared insights on higher education&#8217;s future, endorsing Gen Z as &#8220;the next toolbelt generation.&#8221; During an appearance on Fox News\u2019 \u201cOne Nation with Brian Kilmeade,\u201d the 62-year-old discussed a Wall Street Journal report on rising enrollment in vocational training programs, prompted by Kilmeade&#8217;s inquiry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2227158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Mike-Rowe.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Mike-Rowe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2227158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}