The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is set to announce Tuesday that it is partnering with Colorado and Alabama to expand registered apprenticeships. The DOL’s two new cooperative agreements seek to help make new apprenticeship program registration more efficient and make skills training opportunities more accessible to youth. The DOL’s cooperative agreement with Alabama partly includes the Alabama Commission on Higher Education supporting the expansion of registered apprenticeships as a workforce training solution by making it easier to register new programs and lowering start-up costs. The Trump administration has been moving to expand registered apprenticeships in the U.S. this year in the hopes to meet President Donald Trump’s stated goal of having at least 1 million active new apprentices. Since Trump took office, more than 134,000 new apprentices have registered across the U.S., according to a June 30 DOL news release.