🧱 Factions of Self‑Preservation 5: No Way Up

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🧱 Factions of Self‑Preservation 5: No Way Up

📝 SEO Summary:
Despite low unemployment, Hickory’s economy is stranded between a fading industrial past and an underdeveloped future. This report exposes how eroded vocational pathways, retiring tradespeople, tech-sector vacuum, and youth underemployment are stalling upward mobility and weakening the civic foundation.

🔍 Key Topics Covered:
Breakdown of vocational pipeline decay in local schools and CVCC
Trade knowledge loss from retiring workforce without successors
Absence of tech sector capacity and local innovation ecosystems
Local underemployment despite a 3.6% jobless rate
Mismatch between college grads and career relevance
Tech job growth in NC bypassing Hickory entirely
Strategic gaps in workforce development and civic planning


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#HickoryNC #CatawbaCounty #TheFoothillsCorridor #WorkforceCrisis #CareerMobility
#VocationalTraining #TechDeserts #LaborMarketMismatch #PublicSystemsAnalysis
#CivicFutures #EconomicForecasting #StrategicIntelligence #TheHickoryHound #ShellCooperative