The Container Yard

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNN that draconian abortion laws in Alabama and elsewhere will backfire and prevent the hiring of talent and businesses. Alabama Public Radio reported on similar opinions during part fourteen of its series “Should I Stay, or Should I go?”

Alabama Public Radio has spent the last year looking at why skilled and educated workers are leaving the Gulf coast for other parts of the country. Our series is called “Should I stay, or should I go?” The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council says close to forty percent of companies in the U.S. are female owned. That figure is reportedly a lot lower here in Alabama at less than four percent.