Sluggish economy prompts workers to return to college

Workforce Investment Act helps employees pay for college after their jobs are outsourced.
Monday, September 15, 2008 | 12:00 p.m. CDT; updated 11:17 a.m. CST, Wednesday, February 11, 2009

COLUMBIA — Tod Holdorf and Tim Sutton were working in the electronic products division at 3M in Columbia earlier this year when the company outsourced its jobs to Singapore. Both had worked at the plant for 11 years.

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