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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.

Fifteen Missouri counties recently earned Certified Work Ready Community (CWRC) status. Knox, Osage, Gasconade, Holt, Atchison, Texas, Gentry, Taney, Worth, Bates, Ralls, St. Clair, Montgomery, Ozark and Cass counties each earned the designation.

Knox County was inducted as a Work Ready Community at the Knox County High School Gymnasium on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Watch the video of the ceremony below link.  ACT Work Ready Communities (WRC) empowers states, regions and counties with data, processes and tools that drive economic growth. Participants are leveraging the ACT® WorkKeys® National Career Readiness Certificate® (NCRC®) to measure and close the skills gap — and building common frameworks that link, align and match their workforce development efforts.

A northeast Missouri community works to keep its residents and attract new ones.  Knox County, Missouri hopes to spark new economic development through a group called Grow Knox County.  And now that organization has a new distinction to help make that possible.  The nonprofit organization meets regularly to think of ways to attract more people and business to the area.  Wednesday night's meeting was especially important--the county received a 'work ready community' distinction.