Sorry, I got banned and then let the conversation lapse.
It’s 50 miles from where I live to the nearest community college. So if a laid off FF worker needs to retrain via an institution, they will spend at least $20 each day in gas, assuming they can afford a car. If they attend 3 days a week, there goes $240 of their unemployment each month (gas is $5.50/gal and there is no public transit option). I don’t know what they do when unemployment runs out in six months. Maybe join the homeless? That seems to be a popular option these days.
This is what I would call a failure of institutions. Government should be ameliorating all of these problems.
It’s not really a company’s concern. They exist to profit. Government exists to improve people’s lives.