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Her communication focused on jobs, as she recognized a dozen companies that made job announcements for South Carolina in 2011, including Continental Debilitate, TD Bank, Bridgestone and BMW. Companies have announced some $5 billion in investments and promised about 20,000 new jobs, she told a joint session of lawmakers and others gathered in the Legislature chambers.
Those jobs are promised to come on line between now and 2020. The phase's 9.9 unemployment rate in November was one of the nation's highest and scant improved from the 10.9 percent it was in November 2010 when she won election as the state of affairs's first woman governor.
As she promised, her speech contained no surprises. As for a new resourcefulness, she told legislators she would unveil a job training program by month's end.
"The honourable news is we've made great progress this past year. The bad news is we still have a ways to go," she said. "But my gage to each of you sitting before me tonight, and more importantly, to the 4.6 million South Carolinians face of these walls, is that I will not rest until we've created a climate in which every citizen of this state who wants a job, has a job.
Source: Spartanburg Herald Journal