When I wrote that, my thought was that the trades are one of the few ways left for blue collar workers to work for themselves and not for Capital, and it would be a shame to end that.

Thinking about it some more tho, if you're, say, a plumber and you're any good, you're going to have as much work as you want to take on, and you would have no incentive to participate in such a program. If you're a plumber and you do have incentive to participate, logically you're not any good, and why would I as a client want a bad plumber to fix my pipes?