South Carolina Workforce Report: Stalled

And you still have no idea why this is other then some half-baked right-wing/Libertarian talking point. It’s because there is a woeful mismatch between educational attainment and occupational training in the SC Workforce. We lag far behind on both metrics and here’s the GOP and Fox News telling kids they don’t need to go to college. They can just go to tech and get a degree and make “good” money. Yeah, that’s true if you have good grades, you stay in school, and actually finish tech school. Far too many do NOT. That leaves them woefully unqualified to do much of anything. The problem is not that too many people are not participating in the active labor market, but that they do not have the credentials to get an available job because they lack the critical education and technical skill set to do so. There is also an issue in rural areas having few economic opportunities. Fix that, then the “won’t work-force” will fix itself.