From the article:
James Myall, a policy analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy, described the bill “as a promising initiative to start addressing these economic problems.”
“Of the approximately 33,000 Mainers who leave the state each year, almost half (48%) are either college students or college graduates,” he wrote. “And while some do return to the state (Maine actually has a slight net inflow of college graduates), it’s at a later stage in their life. The average age of college students and graduates leaving the state is 28, but the average age of a returning graduate is 38.6. That means Maine is missing out on a decade of productivity and tax revenue from these college graduates. LD 1834 could reduce this out ow of human capital, and encourage it to return sooner.”
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