Workforce challenges being addressed by industry-community college partnership

A panel of workforce development experts told the Alabama pro-growth policy conference the state will benefit from more collaboration to close real-world gaps in the pipeline to get jobs filled – and keep them filled.  Alabama’s labor force participation rate has been a priority topic for many state leaders as they see the numbers and data playing out across the state. 48,934 workers are unemployed while 140,000 job openings remain unfilled in Alabama.  Despite policy advantages, the panel of experts said there’s a great deal of opportunity to get Alabama up to the national average. Partnershi