I've always argued that the single biggest challenge that we have as a state is workforce participation. If we could fix … Workforce participation in West Virginia is 54.3%, while the national average is 62%. … And that's what we should be striving for. And we know that different parts of the state have different workforce participation rates. We want to obviously drive those numbers up. (01:50–02:05)
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Asserts that West Virginia's workforce participation rate is significantly below the national average.
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