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Article: Wichita, Kan., Officials Discuss Ways to Create Tech-Savvy Local Workforce.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- October 18, 2000
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Oct. 17--Finding skilled workers continues to be a problem in the high-riding Wichita economy, business leaders say.
"We have a shortage of technical, manufacturing and information technically skilled people," Fred Ade of CNH Global said Monday at the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce.
Tim Witsman, president of the Chamber, said local businesses tell the Chamber that the availability of skilled labor is a top issue.
Ade and Witsman spoke at the introduction of KansasJobLink.com, a five-month project of the Wichita Chamber, chambers of commerce in south-central Kansas, the Local Workforce Investment Board, the Business Roundtable and the state of ...