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Rural areas need more young people, workers and young workers

8/1/2024

 
Originally published at KTRH News Houston.

​Rural towns and cities across the U.S. are still dealing with years-long workforce issues.

The younger labor force is more likely to seek work elsewhere in more urban or suburban places over areas with aging workers. There's been a noticeable hit to some blue-collar jobs that have made people consider where they live and work.

Dr. Vance Ginn, President of Ginn Economic Consulting, said a lot of rural communities have been trying to recollect themselves ever since the covid years.

"The number of workers who have decided to move to other places along with the higher cost of living has made it more difficult for people to live in a lot of these communities," said Ginn.

Because of that, people have been moving to places that are cheaper and still offer just as good quality of living. This has left rural areas stuck looking for workers to fill open positions.

"There's not as many workers available to fill the jobs that are needed," Ginn said. "What we're seeing is some pretty big hardship."

Ginn suggests in order to attract people back to their community or city or to get more people to move closer to them, these rural areas need to reevaluate what their property taxes and restrictions look like.

"That way the affordability crisis or how much they can afford to live in those communities will go down and that will help with a lot of the shortages that we're seeing in the workforce," Ginn added.

Texas seems to be doing better than some of the other larger populated states like New York and California who have higher taxes and more regulations. There have been a lot of people move to states like Florida and Tennessee too, states that don't have personal income tax.

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