More notes from Arizona Town Hall in April of 2010. Joesph Kalt an economist from Harvard speaks…
April 2010 Facts
- Unemployment rate at national average
- Underemployment rate at top (300,000 jobs lost, 1 in 9)
- State tax receipts down by 33%
- Budget gap largest in country
- Population growth lowest in 50 years (me be negative)
Declining in nearly every indicator
- 2nd most sensitive economic engine only behind Nevada
- middle of road over 65
- Ranked 11th for people under 45
- 18th in crime rate
- Ranked 51st in educational spending
Evidence we can not go back to the old economy
- lost lowest cost housing
- highly volatile
- susceptible to lower wage jobs
- cycles of brain drain
- politics of morphine drip (it was just easy)
- low expectations!!!!!
AZ can be bottom feeder or top feeder
- protect what is great about the state
- make environment where good people want to work
- build on universities
- community instead of business infrastructure
- well run cities (and ultimately state)
Need good leaders? Not true. It’s a lie. It is.
You get the leadership that the SYSTEM rewards!
Fix structures and systems for growth
- separate politics from operations
- stop rewarding shill politics
- media wants good vs evil
- remove parties from the system
- CA running next election outside two party system
Breakdown happens when civil discourse happens. We must stop the “You are Evil” politics.
More from Derek Neighbors
- The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona
- AZ Town Hall Flashback April 26th 2010
- The Effects of Shifting/Resetting on Society
- Brian Cole on Arizona Economic Development April 27th 2010
- Thoughts On Deep Economy
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