{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-50-502","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 6-50-502","heading":"Legislative findings","body":"Whereas workplace changes have profoundly altered and increased the skills required of workers and managers; and\n\nWhereas schools are struggling to improve the basic skills of the school-age population drawn increasingly from \"at risk\" households where children tend to leave school early; and\n\nWhereas many noncollege-bound youth, especially women and minorities, spend their first years after high school unemployed or job-hopping from one low-skills job to another, with a consequent loss in productivity and access to career-oriented learning; and\n\nWhereas most new jobs that will be created in the 1990s will require some postsecondary education; and\n\nWhereas the economic position of \"The Forgotten Half\" - noncollege-bound high school graduates - is deteriorating, with real earnings declining by twenty-eight percent (28%) from 1973 to 1986, while the earnings of college graduates have risen; and\n\nWhereas most employers in the United States lack a tradition of strong employee training;\n\nNow, therefore, the State of Arkansas has determined that the establishment of a youth apprenticeship program can contribute significantly to addressing these problems by providing Arkansas's noncollege-bound young people with additional opportunities to develop meaningful job skills.","path":["AR Code","Title 6","Chapter 50","Subchapter 5"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"cc7fdfacc3f8b8350abf798d4a7057aea7562cbfd4dfdff53d3b93e08425dc2e","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-50-501","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-50-503"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}