Low-wage job prediction doesn’t have to come true
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
By Chris Fitzsimon
March 31, 2007 - 12:00AM The darkest hour is just before the dawn, you know, and that’s more than an astronomical phenomenon. Even the direst circumstances tend toward improvement, as a few items in the news showed this week, though some darts take longer than others to turn into hearts.Y No one familiar with Eastern North Carolina and the changes - one might say spasms - its economy has undergone will be surprised by the data in a report on the state of the state’s workforce. If current trends continue, the eastern part of the state will see less than a quarter of the new jobs created in North Carolina by 2017 and many of them will be low-paying jobs in the service industry.
That’s a pretty dire prediction, unless you consider the trend doesn’t have to continue. In fact, something is already being done to change it. A surprising number of programs are in place or in the planning stages, primarily at Lenoir Community College and public school systems in our counties, to raise the skill level of the aggregate workforce - and, by extension, make this area more attractive to the employers now taking their high-skill, high playing jobs to metropolitan areas in the state. (more…)
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