Posted on 06/29/2006 9:42:37 AM PDT by presidio9
New England states will face a shortage of educated young workers if demographic trends continue, according to a study to be released today, a shift that could exacerbate business leaders' worries about the region's workforce.
The report, by scholars at the universities of Massachusetts and Connecticut, finds that each of those states stands to lose tens of thousands of young workers holding at least a bachelor's degree by 2020, a period when the same critical workforce will grow in other regions.
``This new finding should heighten everyone's concerns about the region's long-term economic vitality," concludes the report, which was sponsored by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, a Quincy philanthropy that promotes access to colleges and universities.
Moreover, the working-age populations of both states, plus those of Maine and Rhode Island, will shrink over the same period, the report found, in contrast to the growth expected in Sun Belt and Western states. Businesses will be particularly anxious about the lower numbers of skilled workers, said study co author Stephen Coelen of the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis in Storrs.
``You can look at this any way you want to and you'll find we have lost population, which is going to make it harder to be competitive," Coelen said in an interview yesterday. ``We've constantly been talking about this trend since the 1990s, but we have never had data that show we're on the precipice as much as we're seeing this now."
The report comes as some of the largest companies with headquarters in Massachusetts, such as mutual-fund giant Fidelity Investments and data-storage maker EMC Corp., increasingly are adding employees in other states and countries, amid worries they have tapped out the workforce in a state that census data show is growing slowly.
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But the Red Sox are a lot of fun. Sunset Grille is awesome too.
And everone of them still has their Kerry Edwards bumper sticker on their car. Don't forget the angry lesbians in a Subaru Forester.
Well put:) I recently departed Cambrdge for the midwest. Though I did enjoy a variety of positive aspects of life in Cambridge, after a number of years I had come to the conclusion that some of my neighbors didn't share my views and values. I did run into a few other conservatives while living there - seems we had a type of conservdar - a sense of who each other were.
I have a good friend , 27, who is fairly liberal, but moved to Boston for a job two years ago. He hates it. Says the cost of living is outrageous. Is actively sending out resumes to Atlanta, Nashville, and all over the Florida panhandle.
Taxes in Massachusetts are lower as a share of income than in many of the states people are moving to, such as Georgia and North Carolina. Taxes in New Hampshire are among the lowest in the country. Some states, like Utah and Idaho, have much higher taxes.
It's the cost of living combined with the long winters that drives people elsewhere. If housing were cheaper, a lot of people I know would have stayed instead of moving to North Carolina.
Oh, right, because New York is a conservative utopia.
Right! Those idiotic Kerry-Edwards stickers; they're everywhere...
Cambridge is rapidly falling apart under the weight of successive socialist administrations. It reminds me of the way Brookline was several years ago, a town which has now fallen to abject socialist decay.
>>New Englanders who experience reality, and decide that they will be better off in a Red State will, I am sure, become good Conservatives if they are not already.
My two brothers and I moved out when we couldn't get jobs in the late 80s/early 90s. I'd guess the same thing is happening now, as I have been looking for jobs back there to be closer to my aging parents. Not much luck.
I don't see how this trend can change if you keep taxing businesses out of existance.
I have no love for the moonbattery that comes out of Cambridge and Brookline city governments, and the people are as have been described, however, by what standard could you say Brookline has fallen into "decay"? I'd love to be able to afford a small piece of that decay, it looks pretty damn sweet to me.
"It's the cost of living combined with the long winters that drives people elsewhere."
Yes, the long winters are rough and a dollar doesn't go far here. But let's not forget the Marxist social policies and the political corruption as factors driving the exodus.
Sorry - guess I'm a lot older than you. And I spent a lot of time in Coolidge Corner as a kid. Used to live nearby, actually. Compared to the way it was in those days fifty years ago, it now resembles a blighted, ageing, East European socialist sinkhole to these old eyes. I'm afraid it looks pretty d*mn cheesy to me. As in Limburger cheesy.
I guess it depends on who you know that leaves--the people I know are either indifferent to the politics or actually fit in the mainstream here. Corruption doesn't affect people who don't pay close attention to news and don't own their own homes, besides, it's everywhere in the country and the stuff in Massachusetts is penny-ante compared to what they get away with in New Jersey or Florida. I think that most red Americans know full well what Massachusetts is going to be like and wouldn't move here in the first place.
That may well be the case. When I think of Brookline, I think of the private homes and apartments I've seen, not Coolidge Corner. CC is doing pretty well but it's definitely a different kind of business center than it was when Brookline was a real community and not gentrified/hippified/studentized through the roof.
Simple. New England is very liberal/progressive/socialist (pick one) The basic dogma of communism is take money from those who have it because they worked hard or are intelligent and give it to those who don't work hard or are not intelligent.
So why would intelligent hard-working people want to stay in a socialist paradist?
The only thing I miss since I have moved, The North End, RedSox and steak tips at Champions in Peabody. Otherwise, I have not looked back.
For a young person, that's a no-brainer. ;)
At what point do liberals realize, when fleeing a state ruined by liberal policies, that liberalism is a proven failure and stop ruining every place they go? Well, I guess if they were smart, they wouldn't be liberals...
Does he recognize the cause of why Boston is so wretched?
BTW, War Eagle!
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