As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

This story also appeared in National Public Radio When the Chemours chemical plant in New Johnsonville, Tennessee, needed workers to maintain its high-tech machinery, it advertised for them as far as 90 miles away in Nashville in one direction and 150 miles away in Memphis on the other. It still couldn’t fill the jobs. “You … Continue reading As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college