• Government grants/scholarships for skilled trades predicted by federal employment office to have a shortfall in either workers or colleges in the near future.
• Federal standardization of all education (if this isn’t the case already) to simplify importing workers out of state
• Increased unemployment benefits for trades to ease off-season/low demand periods and make the career more attractive
• grade-school/high-school and general media propaganda to improve public opinion of ‘grunt workers’

or do absolutely nothing and let the free market figure it out like we’re told it will