Schools, employers, economy bear blame

The dearth of employees qualified to meet the region’s labor needs has, in part, been attributed to perceived shortcomings in the school system, public-sector training programs and the workplace.Depending on whom you talk to, the problem of a limited supply of workers has been exacerbated by entities on both sides of the labor equation, though all parties believe they are doing their part to alleviate the problem.
A concern, if not a consensus, among business people is that good people are hard to find. They assert that many students coming out of high school don’t have the work ethic and…