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Congratulations to the team at Coastal Alabama Community College for earning the Work Ready Accelerator designation from ACT Work Ready Communities. To learn more about Work Ready Organization Designations from ACT, contact the team by email to wrc@act.org.

Site Selection Magazine's November edition includes a dozen location spotlights that include WorkKeys NCRC growth trends to demonstrate workforce quality. Features include Kansas, the Dakotas, Virginia, Nebraska, New York, Mississippi, Washington, and Wyoming.

The number and percentage of Alabama public high school seniors who are workforce-ready has continued to rise since the pandemic according to an analysis by the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama (PARCA). This passing percentage marks the highest number achieved since 2019. While the report indicates students are nearing the workforce readiness percentages prior to the pandemic, there was a sizable difference in the number of students who took the test in 2023 compared to 2019.

Coastal Growers LLC held a groundbreaking today for its new peanut shelling facility in the Atmore Industrial Park. Gov. Kay Ivey, local, state and federal officials marked the occassion at the construction site in Atmore and the Work Ready county of Escambia, Alabama.