We talk about the people who can work but aren't working. Has it been broken down in percentages? How many health issues, how many? We found that that's the … West Virginia has the worst workforce participation rate in the country, fueled by poor healthcare outcomes. … because if we can reduce the number of people that really aren't healthy enough to work, that's gonna feed directly into the workforce participation numbers. (42:29–42:39)
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