AT&T CEO says hard to find skilled U.S. workers ... [especially with] high school dropout rate is as high as 50 percent

AT&T CEO says hard to find skilled U.S. workers | Wed Mar 26, 9:39 PM ET

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India.
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Stephenson said he is especially distressed that in some U.S. communities and among certain groups, the high school dropout rate is as high as 50 percent.

"If I had a business that half the product we turned out was defective or you couldn't put into the marketplace, I would shut that business down," he said. ...