Voice of the Voter | Welding school founder on 2024 election [Video]

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Blythe says he started the Georgia Trade School in 2012. According to him, instructors there have since trained nearly 2,000 students.

He says the training his students receive provides “a path to middle-class security.”

“I feel like we’re saving a lot of young men and women who didn’t know what they wanted to do after high school,” he added.

Blythe sees his welding lab as a room of opportunity for marketable skills.

“We’re teaching a skill. And it’s a marketable skill. It’s a skill that’s in demand,” said Blythe. “It’s a skill that there’s …