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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 Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development (MDHEWD) was recently recognized at the ACT Workforce Summit in Atlanta, Georgia for having 13 counties maintaining or achieving their Certified Work Ready Community status in the past year.

Missouri currently leads the nation with a total of 99 Certified Work Ready Communities and 112 communities that are participating and working towards certification.

Cooperative Response Center (CRC), a nationwide contact and alarm monitoring center, announced today it will open a new facility in Kirksville in the Work Ready Community of Adair County. Investing more than $1 million and creating more than 87 new jobs, the new facility will be CRC’s first Missouri location and allow the company to meet increasing demand for its services.