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'Come home to Wyoming' campaign might fill critical jobs

Way back in December 1999 I wrote a column, which detailed the achilles heel of Wyoming’s economic expansion - the lack of qualified workers who live here.

My solution was inviting natives, former residents and frequent visitors back home to the Cowboy State as a key way to solve this problem.

Now here we are 15 years later, the problem is not only still occurring but it might be worse today than it was way back then in the last century.

And on a similar subject, now, like then, the out-migration of Wyoming’s young people is a subject of dismay. Somehow the state needs to reverse that trend.

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