An interesting report was just published by Bloomberg showing U.S. metro areas suffering a “brain drain” with the outflow of people with advanced degrees and white-collar job losses and pay reductions in science, technology, engineering and math.
And a companion index called “Brain Concentration Index” shows just the opposite. Colorado is well represented on this list as the state with three cities – 1. Boulder 2. Fort Collins, and 10. Denver.
The top 15 cities on the brainpower list are:
- Boulder, CO
- Fort Collins,
- San Jose, CA
- Durham, NC
- San Francisco, CA
- Washington, DC
- Raleigh, NC
- Madison, WI
- Seattle, WA
- Denver, CO
- Boston, MA
- Austin, TX
- Corvallis, OR
- Portland, OR
- Ann Arbor, MI
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Last mention of elections, especially an appeal for your support for transportation funding by voting for Proposition 109 and Proposition 110. Go here for the Chamber’s positions.