SmartAsset recently looked at population shifts for those younger than 35 with adjusted gross incomes of at least $100,000, and found Illinois was losing these successful young adults at a faster pace than every other state except New York. The referenced survey is linked here.
This is only a handful of millennial – a few thousand people – and not surprisingly, awful california seemed to gain the most (working for start up in CA is still a thing? They still actually do that?)
The real brain drain is the middle class with years of experience that runs the day to day operation of our local companies. A hot shot millennial is just another transient liberal. But a middle class resident pays taxes, buys local and makes future tax payers. They’re they ones that are leaving or have left.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
This is only a handful of millennial – a few thousand people – and not surprisingly, awful california seemed to gain the most (working for start up in CA is still a thing? They still actually do that?)
The real brain drain is the middle class with years of experience that runs the day to day operation of our local companies. A hot shot millennial is just another transient liberal. But a middle class resident pays taxes, buys local and makes future tax payers. They’re they ones that are leaving or have left.