Governor Greg Abbott is always looking for ways to bring new jobs into the state of Texas, and after years of new companies flooding into the state, now he has decided to start looking within instead of outside. The Governor recently has started ordering Texas agencies to fast-track policy changes that will help steer more Texans into the high-demand trade jobs and other non-degree careers.

The trades, for lack of a better word, have been virtually dying in recent years. No one wants to do manual labor or do anything that sounds below them, so simple high-demand trades have fallen by the wayside. The talent pool has dried up and there has been no one there to replace them.

Sydnie Henry of Texas Scorecard says this effort will hopefully drive some younger people especially into these high demand jobs.

“Cutting some of the red tape, and probably pushing some more state funding into promoting the trade pathways,” she says.

It comes as part of Abbot’s newly created Texas Jobs Council, which he launched in March. They are essentially tasked with finding actions to take now, to avoid waiting for the 2027 legislative session. Because as we all know, more arguments than accomplishments happen in the Texas legislature when they do convene.

But there is not just a need for the trade positions due to thinning of the herd, Texas continues to boom. More and more opportunities keep arriving, and with those, come sub-opportunities as a result.

“We have more companies redomiciling here, more headquartering here…construction is kicking up, we have all these pipelines, oil, gas, you always need welders,” says Henry. “There are so many things people can go find, and hopefully, something they enjoy as well and can make a career.”

They are working to engrain the programs early as well. Abbott is pushing the Texas Education Agency to treat skilled trades as a central part of high school options. In most cases now, things like auto shop have become almost extinct in most Texas high schools. This push by Abbott might also bring in kids who want to break the typical mold of accruing tons of college debt and get to work immediately.

“Some of these kids who do not want to go to college, or need to go to college, they can go into the trades…and they will be making more at age 22 than some of these people with a bachelor’s degree,” Henry says.

Texas needs more people back in the trades, and this is a good first step. Henry says the fruits of this push might not be felt immediately, but long-term, this will be a good thing for Texas.

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