By Ben Robinson, Courier Staff

COUNTY — Youth unemployment expert and author Nicholas Wyman visited Pickens County last week and shared his impression on economic development efforts made by Alliance Pickens.

Wyman is writing a book on the development of business technical skills and ways to bridge the skills gap in the United States. While doing his research for the book, he came across information about efforts by Alliance Pickens. Now, Wyman hopes to use what he learned as he tours the nation to speak.

“He was very impressed,” Alliance Pickens executive director Ray Farley said. “He looked at our economic development, our school district, the career center, basically all the things that are