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Where have all the workers gone?

After years of worrying about the jobless rate on the Hi-Line, there may be a problem of an extreme shortage of workers in the not too distant future.

Participants at a Havre Job Service program, "Where Have All the Workers Gone," Tuesday were told that employers will have to come up with a whole new way of attracting millennials to work for them.

The jobless rate in Hill County is 4.5 percent, slightly higher than Montana as a whole, but lower than the national rate, said Amy Watson, an analyst with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry's Research and Analysis Bureau.

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