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• Position: STATELINE - Skilled workers shortage - Brief article

A shortage of skilled workers, caused in part by a dearth of vocational and technical schools, is hurting the Massachusetts economy, a Northeastern University School of Law study has found. Schools turned away at least 3,500 applicants in the past two years because they were full, while thousands of well-paying jobs in the health and computer fields sat empty. A separate survey of 334 Massachusetts employers by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education found that 69 percent had...