The Red State that Loves Free College
Publication: Politico
“I can’t emphasize enough to anybody who’s not in the middle of these economic development conversations how much it has changed – literally it is all about workforce development,” Haslam said. “You could look out and say, ‘We’re really close to having a big mismatch and jobs are going to go somewhere else and we’re going to have a lot of people here who won’t have jobs.’ So that’s the primary emphasis, that was the primary motivating factor.”