November 14, 2003
Empty Promises?
Community colleges in North Carolina struggle to provide retraining to displaced blue-collar workersJust past noon on a dreary fall day, Walter Waller sits in an oak-paneled, fluorescent-lit room that once served as a break area for workers at a now-defunct textile factory.
The former employee of the Pillowtex Corporation, laid off in July along with some 4,500 others just before the manufacturer of bed linens shut its doors, sits with his back straight up against a blue plastic
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