The economy keeps adding jobs, but filling them gets harder

Jobs, jobs, jobs — they aren’t hard to find. The tricky part is for the businesses that need qualified people to fill them. NPR has the story on the national trend, but there’s a message we’d do well to take note of here in Minot. We perpetually pursue jobs through economic development, but we already have a dangerously low unemployment rate. Perhaps we’d do better to pursue people? Maybe then the businesses would follow our precious resources.

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Yuki Noguchi, NPR

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