A group of southwest Minnesota mayors from Pipestone, Canby, Granite Falls, Jackson, Luverne, Marshall and Worthington has proposed a pilot program intended to retain and attract workers by supporting technical education and training for targeted occupations. “A couple of us mayors were sitting around after meetings and we started talking about various things that we have in common as cities and one of the things we really are fighting in southwest Minnesota is a loss of working age population, and there’s a whole raft of issues that go along with that, be it housing, employment, what have you,” Pipestone Mayor...

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