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Last week, a team of ASA and staffing industry advocates, including Michelle Sims, chief executive officer of YUPRO Placement, Shari Franey, chief operating officer of Hamilton-Ryker/TalentGro, and Toby Malara, Esq., ASA vice president of government affairs, met with Henry Mack, Ed.D., Labor Department assistant secretary, Megan Baird, acting administrator of the DOL Office of Apprenticeship, and Sam Smith, DOL policy adviser, to ask that DOL formally recognize staffing firms as approved sponsors of Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs), with the same