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ACT's Leadership Blog featured skills-driven innovations for WRCs in New York, Arkansas, and Louisiana to strengthen workforce assets. WRC helps align education, industry, and policy around the single goal to develop a skilled, job-ready talent pipeline.

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.

Texarkana College and the Texarkana USA Chamber have added ACT WorkKeys Essential Skills to the LEAD 1100 course. This equips Workforce students with key job skills and prepares them to earn the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC).

“The Texarkana region has taken another major step forward toward aligning their education and workforce systems,” says Jerry Kenney, T.L.L Temple Foundation. “As a Certified Work Ready Community, Miller County Arkansas has the partnerships and programs residents need to build essential skills and earn valuable certifications to qualify for high-demand, high-wage jobs in the regional labor market. The Texarkana Chamber of Commerce has been indispensable in mobilizing comprehensive community support for workforce development through ACT WorkKeys, creating more access and opportunity for all ”