Published on May 4th, 2021 | by Darren Paltrowitz

Tony & Jimmy Garoppolo On The Need For Skilled Workers, SkillsUSA, Music, TV & More

A recent study conducted by Klein Tools and The Accelerate Group analyzed the continued increase in the trade workforce gap and the long-term impacts on the United States’ ability to achieve a clean-energy future while maintaining its electrical power systems and equipment. To reverse this workforce gap, between 107,000 and 224,000 new electrician and line worker apprentices must be trained before 2030. SkillsUSA has partnered with Klein Tools to bring National Signing Day to students across the country, encourage more people to enter skilled trade professions and raise awareness about the need to reverse the workforce gap across the United States Of America.

Retired career-electrician — who worked for 40 years in the Chicagoland area — Tony Garoppolo is dedicated to helping more people understand the growing demand for skilled trade professionals and how vital these careers and future workers are to our economy. He played high school football in Franklin Park, Illinois and taught son Jimmy about football at a young age. That son Jimmy is indeed Jimmy Garoppolo, star NFL quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, who took the team to the Super Bowl in 2020. Along with his father, Jimmy has supported SkillsUSA’s National Signing Day since its inaugural event in 2019, continuing a streak of on-going support for the cause.

On May 4, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with Tony and Jimmy Garoppolo via Zoom, as embedded below. Beyond SkillsUSA’s National Signing Day and its overall related cause, we also talked music and television. More on the Garoppolos can be found online here, here, here and here.

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Tags: 49ers, Chicago, Jimmy Garoppolo, Klein Tools, National Signing Day, NFL, SkillsUSA, Tony Garoppolo

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Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal.Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."