Universal Apprenticeship-to-Ownership Pathway

PROBLEM: Young workers in entry jobs (shoeshine, service, labor) have no mapped path from apprentice to owner — the steps exist in memoirs but not as a system anyone can follow.

SOLUTION: A pathway record that maps each stage (first job, first skill, first saving, first purchase, first hire) with a mentor check at each step, modeled on the documented arcs of Barbera (age six, Jamaica Avenue) and Russell (age 12, duplex as a teen).

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — both memoirs are published records with the ages and first steps cited. The video's subject is unidentified and is not used as the model.