Happy Thursday!

It's National Apprenticeship Week, and JFF president and CEO Maria Flynn makes the case in Forbes that we still aren't moving fast enough. A few numbers from her column worth pulling out: program completers earn an average of $84,000 — well above the $66,000 national average — and businesses see $144 in returns for every $100 invested. Apprenticeship enjoys 88% support among Democrats and 82% among Republicans, roughly the only place those two columns currently meet. And yet only 700,000 Americans are enrolled in a labor force of 160 million.

At The Hechinger Report, Jeff Young investigates the explosion of student loan debt-relief scams. With CFPB enforcement scaled back and SAVE effectively shut down by a federal judge in March, predatory firms are doing brisk business — using government-sounding names ("USA Forgive — Sponsored by DOGE"), charging hundreds of dollars for paperwork borrowers could file themselves, or worse: draining accounts, locking borrowers out of their loan portals, and pushing them into default. As one source puts it: "It's a great time if you're in the scam business."

And lastly, one for the nostalgia file: if you grew up in the eighties or nineties, you remember the ritual — the BOOK IT! button, the monthly certificate, the Personal Pan Pizza you carried out of Pizza Hut like spoils of war. Summer of Stories, BOOK IT!'s summer edition, is back: enrollment opens tomorrow, and it runs June 1 through August 31 for kids in pre-K through sixth grade. Same deal as ever — hit your monthly reading goal, get a free pizza.

— Thomas

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