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The rural workforce is changing. Colleges are scrambling to keep up. 

March 15, 2024/

Lack of affordable housing makes it almost impossible to recruit out-of-towners to rural communities like Ravalli County, and the in-town workforce is drying up. Montana and other states hope more flexible, skills-based education systems can root out, and then meet, specific and sometimes surprising education needs.


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