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I think the undercount in the last federal census was due to the hispanic community being told by their leaders not to respond to the census and others not responding for various other reasons. If you lived here in 2010, you will remember this controversy. I suspect that if we get the right count, we'll not lose a seat.
It seems to me that this bill will just cost taxpayers more money. Also, why only people with children? I know that counts as "more" but won't it cost the school system more? Why would middle class families move here for the public schools? Why not a couple making upwards of 100K?
Wouldn't the people filling up all the new residences downtown make a difference?
I think the undercount in the last federal census was due to the hispanic community being told by their leaders not to respond to the census and others not responding for various other reasons. If you lived here in 2010, you will remember this controversy. I suspect that if we get the right count, we'll not lose a seat.
It seems to me that this bill will just cost taxpayers more money. Also, why only people with children? I know that counts as "more" but won't it cost the school system more? Why would middle class families move here for the public schools? Why not a couple making upwards of 100K?
Wouldn't the people filling up all the new residences downtown make a difference?
The bill is nonsense. It looks like RI could very well lose a house seat in the next census, but paying people to move to the state is an asinine answer.
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The bill is nonsense. It looks like RI could very well lose a house seat in the next census, but paying people to move to the state is an asinine answer.
Agreed, if you want more people to move here, create more jobs through creating infrastructure (in all its definitions) to attract them and create them.
Agreed, if you want more people to move here, create more jobs through creating infrastructure (in all its definitions) to attract them and create them.
It's not just a lack of infrastructure keeping jobs away. The entire government culture needs to change, and I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.
It would make more sense to pay employers to move to RI and then the people will follow.
But RI doesn't exactly have the greatest track record at doing that either. The entire business climate is horrible, and needs to change if there is to be any hope whatsoever. And then there is the education system...
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But RI doesn't exactly have the greatest track record at doing that either. The entire business climate is horrible, and needs to change if there is to be any hope whatsoever. And then there is the education system...
And these two things are the core of infrastructure.
Infrastructure isn't roads and bridges as much anymore.
It would make more sense to pay employers to move to RI and then the people will follow.
Yes, and... some large corporations several years ago were enticed to RI with 'incentives'. I did a lot of corporate relocation business for several of them. IBM, for example, came in for a few years, and swiftly left, followed by insurance companies and other major players. Bostitch, Textron, Grinnell Corp., Aetna, IBM, Fram Corp., and others.
Toward the 'end' of that period, it was getting more obvious that a corp would send out the husband and wife, or just the husband, to ''evaluate" the four communities considered 'bedroom' communities that were growing -- and some potential buyers did not accept the position(s). It became obvious that where those buyers would have relocated from were a better situation; or, more often than not, they chose other states.
There is one difference though ,that would be folks relocating from California. Selling prices for homes in CA have always been double or triple RI. Even then, they could sell a home let's say in Redondo Beach or SanDiego and so forth, and have enough money to buy two homes in RI -- and some did. The bedroom communities were/are: Cumberland, Lincoln, Barrington, East Greenwich.
Look at AT Cross Co., a very sad loss for RI. The company is a mere shell of what it used to be; the name is still on the building, but 'nobody's home'.
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