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DACA freeze exacerbates Greenville SC workforce shortages
Anna B. Mitchell, The Greenville News
Published 10:38 a.m. ET Sept. 8, 2017
... Greenville Chamber President Carlos Phillips said that Hispanic workers are a key component of the Upstate's growing workforce ...
Ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, he said, will only hurt the state's economy.
"Thousands of DACA residents are filling critical holes in our region’s workforce," Phillips said in a statement from the chamber. "Our businesses already run with thousands of unfilled positions each day" ...
The state of South Carolina has about 7,000 DACA enrollees.
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/money/2017/09/08/chamber-freeze-daca-exacerbates-greenvilles-workforce-shortages/644743001/
