Posted on 04/21/2015 5:52:24 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Every year since 2002, Minnesota has been losing residents to other states. What’s worse: Young adults are leaving in the greatest numbers.
Casey Sperzel is Minnesotan through and through.
She grew up in Maple Grove, went to college at the University of Minnesota, and lived in both St. Paul and Minneapolis. But when the 27-year-old met with a job recruiter last year, she was set on the Pacific Northwest.
“I don’t think I’ll be back,” said Sperzel, now with a Seattle ad agency.
States are scrambling for young professionals like Sperzel to help offset the wave of baby boomer retirements. Minnesota is falling behind in that competition.
The state has lost residents every year since 2002, with young adults most eager to leave. About 9,300 18- to 24-year-olds move out annually, according to the Minnesota State Demographic Center.
That — combined with a declining birthrate and an aging population — has demographers and civic leaders sounding alarms.
“It’s a lapel-grabbing moment,” said Peter Frosch, a vice president at Greater MSP, a St. Paul nonprofit focused on economic development in the Twin Cities metro.
Over the next 15 years, more Minnesotans will retire than in the past six decades combined, resulting in a labor shortage that is unprecedented since the end of World War II. By 2020, the state is forecast to have a shortage of more than 100,000 workers.
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Bring warm clothes.
Yeah. That'll get them coming back.
Some more stupid commercials with Paul Bunyan like MNSURE did?
Yeah. Like they even know who that is.
Vacations are great during the winter but I would never want to live anywhere else.
Come for weather, stay for the Somalians...
If Minnesota works hard at it, they can be the next Detroit.
“To address the looming shortage of workers, Greater MSP has assembled a “talent task force” of Fortune 500 CEOs and up-and-coming professionals. It plans to roll out a marketing campaign to trumpet the state’s strengths later this year.”
New marketing slogan. “Come to Minnesota, first in Islam”
The issue with MN isn’t the weather, that’s just the one that people who aren’t used to it think about. It’s the politics of the place, and what that does to state spending and to taxes. When every budget surplus is a reason to raise annual spending, and every budget shortage as a reason to raise taxes, people don’t have much hope that sanity will ever prevail. Minneapolis-St. Paul is basically Toronto with worse weather and more socialists.
There are a lot of great things about the state, but when someone can basically get a 10% raise just by moving across the border to SD, having easy access to craft beer and the MN pro sports scene (such as it is) loses a lot of its appeal.
pay them enough and you will have workers...
Bingo.
Can’t they bring in more foreign workers to abuse?
This is what happened to NY. Illegals and welfare parasites will rush in to fill the void.
Leaving to join ISIS?
Didn't governor goofy recently say that no one is leaving Minnesota ??
It isn't the taxes, it isn't the socialist ways of doing things --- no, no one is leaving and you cannot convince him otherwise !!
Hey goofy, our entire family left, and you lost a lot of state income tax from us, so don't tell us it ain't happening !!
Most people I know vow to retire any place but Minnesota.
Governor Dayton and the DFL recently proposed a 15 cent per gallon increase in the state gasoline tax ostensibly for repair of roads and bridges. This new tax is despite having over a $1 billion surplus in the budget. A recent poll showed 85% of Minnesotans opposing this gas tax increase, but I expect Gov. Dayton may go ahead with a gas tax anyway as he already had designs for spending the billion dollar surplus and the DFL has a majority in the legislature. Maybe Minnesotans will finally wake up and not elect tax and spend liberals, but the election and re-election of Al Franken as Senator from Minnesota doesn’t give me much hope.
I’ve lived in lots of locations in the USA.
Most were better than MN.
Your average Minnesotan never travels anywhere other than Vegas and the local 5 state area.
Colorado beats MN by 1000%.
Oregon is the most similar to MN but with better weather.
I recently read a liberal commentary that said Minn was an economic paradise because they have high taxes.
Hmmmmm.........
Here in Texas, they run some funny radio ads for Kingford’s charcoal, where a group of guys are grilling and ragging on their friend who recently moved to Minnesota who is freezing his you-know-what off.
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