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As I See It: Bringing high-tech jobs to low-income areas

Sometimes common-sense solutions to entrenched problems are hard to sell. Exhibit A is the shortage of mid- to high-tech private and public sector jobs in many of Virginia’s rural areas, especially in the coalfields of far Southwest Virginia. Most people generally know that the three major coal and natural gas counties of Dickenson, Buchanan and Wise are ranked as some of the poorest counties in the state.

 

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