Patrick Morrisey: “The national average [workforce participation rate] is 62%.”

“I still believe it is. West Virginia has the lowest workforce participation rate in America. Think about that. About 54.3%. That's much lower than The national average [workforce participation rate] is 62%. It's another way of saying we need a lot more people to net migration to come into our state, but we also need to keep a lot of our people …” (07:48–08:06)

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