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Greene, Washington Counties: Low Literacy Keeps Workers out of Mining Jobs

Joanna Gaskell - Education Editor | April 11, 2011 | 1:58 pm Education 

Low literacy may be keeping hundreds of applicants in Washington and Greene County (U.S.A.) from taking up the new wealth of entry-level mining jobs to be created in the next several years, Observer-Reporter reports. ...hundreds of applicants from Washington and...