Ready People, Unready Places: The Bottleneck Nobody Sees

Episode 2 of Future Plans’ Designing Opportunity mini-series is live, and it might challenge how you think about workforce development.We often hear about the “talent gap.” But what if the real issue isn’t people…?In this episode, Future Plans Christa Krohn facilitates a discussion with Betsy Franjola of Hocking Hills Garment Center, Josiah Hannah of Coalfield Development, and Stefano Alva of Vitruvian Building who explored a hidden bottleneck:👉 Ready people + real opportunities still stall when communities lack the infrastructure to support them.They talk about:• Why workforce readiness is a systems design challenge• The “invisible” barriers, including housing, transportation, childcare, utilities, permitting• The real timeline (and cost) of building skills that didn’t previously exist in a region• How policy and funding gaps can unintentionally discourage work• Why “make-it-possible dollars” are essential to move from pilot to scale🎧 Ready People, Unready Places: The Bottleneck Nobody Sees#WorkforceDevelopment #CTE #EconomicDevelopment #FutureOfWork #EducationInnovation #CommunityDevelopment