The urban bubble phenomenon in Minnesota job skills
While describing what Alexandria Technical and Community College is doing to help decrease Minnesota's job-skills mismatch, the Echo Press explains one of the dynamics involved:
It's an urban "bubble" phenomenon: for each hour that you drive away from the Twin Cities and into rural areas, manufacturing's workforce gap widens.
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