It pays for Texas companies to invest in their employees’ education

College didn’t work out the first time around for Patricia Fowler of Lufkin, Texas, who says she started after graduating from high school but then maintaining an apartment and caring for her child became her priority. “It got away from me,” she says.

Fowler is one of about 300 JBS and Pilgrim’s team members in Texas to sign up for JBS and Pilgrim’s’ Better Futures program so far. Better Futures, launched in March 2021, provides free community college tuition to any team member on the…