In 2018, California Governor Gavin Newsom set an ambitious goal of reaching 500,000 active apprentices by 2029. He did so because apprenticeship is a proven model and clear strategy for connecting Californians to good jobs. It has a strong track record for workers and employers in the skilled trades and in firefighting, but apprenticeship innovations are also emerging in new sectors, such as health care, information technology, advanced manufacturing, and education, opening up access to good jobs for workers and students through a combination of paid, on-the-job training, and debt-free postsecondary credentials. Access to a good job and family sustaining career is a critical cornerstone for building a more inclusive economy for communities that have always been cut off, or who today find themselves today increasingly distant from opportunities to share in the state's prosperity. But paths to a good job for California's workers and students have only narrowed. The ongoing impact of COVID-19 is making the important work of creating more clear pathways to good jobs and care simultaneously more complicated, more urgent, and more expansive in scale. COVID-19's impacts on the state's economy, especially on the small businesses which employ nearly half of Californian workers, mean more uncertainty for workers in the coming years, especially for those who were already on the fringes of a changing labor market. Like all other states, California will have many policy priorities to manage with diminished budget resources. Reaching a half a million apprentices by 2029 will rest on a strong base of apprenticeship in the building trades and firefighting, where the majority of the state's apprentices are concentrated today. But it will also demand a more expansive and inclusive apprenticeship system, where today nearly 70 percent of Californian apprentices are racial minorities, but only 7 percent are women. Apprenticeship is a strategy that can and should be applied much more broadly across California's workforce. Despite its ambition, the 10-year goal of a 500,000-apprentice system creates the necessary time and space for policymakers to evaluate and implement the necessary actions. At the same time, many of the policy ideas outlined in this report are mutually reinforcing, and as such will have the greatest potential when taken together as part of a comprehensive roadmap for expanding the availability of high-quality apprenticeship opportunities in new and emerging nontraditional industry sectors.