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By David Wallace Arkansas’ recent progress in expanding registered apprenticeship to reverse a widening skills gap is worth noting, and it’s one of the things spotlighted at a recent forum for employers in Jonesboro. In the not-quite five years since Asa Hutchinson took office as governor, Arkansas has nearly doubled the number of apprentices, up […]

Gov. Asa. Hutchison (center) releases findings of the Blue Ribbon Commission’s report on state’s competitiveness in computing and data analytics field. Arkansas Economic Development Commission Chief Mike Preston (R) and former Acxiom Corp. and First Orion CEO Charles Morgan, co-chairmen of the panel, stand at his side with interpreter and other industry and government leaders