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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.

Scott County, Virginia, a Work Ready Community in progress, netted 30 new jobs with an expansion of VFP, Inc. The Southwest Virginia region competed against Missouri and Oklahoma to win the expansion. Company leaders and elected officials cited workforce quality as a key factor in a press release from Gov. Northam.