Home Depot wants to help veterans and underserved high schoolers get jobs in the construction industry.
The hardware company says it will spend $50 million over the next 10 years, training 20,000 people to be plumbers, electricians and carpenters as well as for other trade-based careers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said more than 150,000 construction sector jobs are unfilled in the U.S. and said that number is expected to keep going up.
One project manager in Ohio recently told a local news outlet, "We're dying for workers."
The 12-week certification program is free, and Home Depot says the program has a job placement rate of more than 90 percent.
Right now, it's only available for some military members in Georgia and North Carolina. But Home Depot says it will expand to other bases across the country and eventually to underserved high schools.
