Overcoming the Geographic Brain Drain
April 29, 2019
A new report from the US Senate’s Joint Economic Committee documents a geographic “brain drain” in which highly educated adults are flowing to dynamic states with major metropolitan areas and leaving behind more rural and postindustrial states. As a route to help offset this shift, an official at a forward-looking investment firm recently described in Issues ways to encourage fledgling entrepreneurs to start technology-based companies in underserved areas and to foster their success.