>Healey says this would help train older adults in critical emerging industries like clean energy and advanced manufacturing.

This is a major problem, though - we aren't relying on those industries to train people reliably and sustainably. The emphasis on a college education means people are still focusing on one path, but they're doing it while not employed in that industry. You have to continually come prepared with an education - that may not even have caught up to real practices - instead of relying on a way to just give adults jobs. So just give adults jobs.

You can see these problems manifest in some fields where you need a degree to get in, but may not stay (e.g. teaching), or where you have people getting degrees in things that don't matter anyway, because the field didn't really need it and they switched a few years later regardless.