I know when my son was job searching earlier this year not a single company in NC that offered him a job, and there were several, came close to matching the current salary he was making in the Tidewater area of VA. If we want our children to remain geographically near to us then we have to make the commitment to provide then with good education from pre-school through college, and then recruit companies that provide good working conditions, or else they will go elsewhere, like my son did in his latest job. With the heightened conservativeness of our state, we are doing just the opposite, and our children are paying the price, as this article states: "Climbing the income ladder occurs less often in the Southeast and industrial Midwest, the data shows, with the odds notably low in Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus. By contrast, some of the highest rates occur in the Northeast, Great Plains and West, including in New York, Boston, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Seattle and large swaths of California and Minnesota. “Where you grow up matters,” said Nathaniel Hendren, a Harvard economist and one of the study’s authors. “There is tremendous variation across the U.S. in the extent to which kids can rise out of poverty.”
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:34:04 +0000
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