Pay People to Move to Your State or Region? Maybe It’s Not Such a Bad Idea.
19 Sep 2023
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What public policies have you changed your mind about over time? For me, one of them is relocation incentives for people who work at home.
About five years ago I received an invitation to check out a program being run by the state of Vermont to pay people $10,000 to move to the Green Mountain State. If you haven’t been there, Vermont is pretty awesome. But pre-pandemic it was a demographically stagnant place. State leaders wanted to try to generate some buzz around their state to get people to take a look and see how nice it was. While this made some sense, something about the idea of paying people to move to your state seemed off to me. Candidly, I thought it sounded a bit desperate.
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