September 17, 2009
News Release - For Immediate Release
McLeod: South Carolina Must Prepare For the New Economy
Over the last couple of weeks, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Mullins McLeod has released an idea a week for job creation in South Carolina. South Carolina has been mired in record unemployment for years and McLeod has vowed to make job creation the central focus of his administration.
This week, McLeod's idea is to refocus the state's technical and vocational educational systems to emphasize worker training for new "green energy jobs" in order to attract cutting edge industry to South Carolina while making us more energy independent.
"These new industries in renewable energy are popping up all over the world and South Carolina has to be ready. Our workers have to be properly trained or these companies create their jobs somewhere else," McLeod said. "South Carolina can't keep sitting still and expect to compete with other states."
"For good reasons, the new energy economy is the wave of the future. We need leaders who will prepare for the future and move South Carolina forward," McLeod said.
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