Korda: Education and jobs: one’s hard to find without the other
Source: knoxnews.com Posted By: Nellie D...5269 days ago
Education and jobs. The two are inseparably linked.
Jennifer Evans of the Knoxville Chamber says she talked to a member of the Chattanooga chamber about the new Volkswagen plant coming to the area.
Two thousand jobs are available, for which some 40,000 applications were received. Evans said the Chattanooga folks said 40,000 was a low number; they had expected perhaps 100,000.
“The requirements may have been a factor,” Evans said, adding that at minimum applicants had to have earned at least....