Jill Schramm/MDN Paige Kuntz, left, with the state’s Global Talent Office speaks at a panel discussion during the Souris Basin Planning Council’s State of Region 2 meeting in the North Dakota State Fair Center Thursday, Oct. 30, as panelists Derrick Gross with CATCH and Deb Nelson with Vision West ND listen at right.

Part of the solution to North Dakota’s workforce shortage is in-migration, including an infusion of foreign talent, according to panelists at the Souris Basin Planning Council’s State of Region 2 meeting in Minot Thursday, Oct. 30.

Resettlement of foreign-born newcomers won’t solve the population problem but can be part of the solution, said Derrick Gross, executive director at Communities Acting Together for Change and Hope (CATCH), an organization that helps prepare rural

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