November 14, 2003

Empty Promises?

By JAMILAH EVELYN

Community colleges in North Carolina struggle to provide retraining to displaced blue-collar workers

Just 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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