People have historically been this region’s biggest strength. Today, they’re this region’s biggest challenge. How we bridge that dichotomy will determine our collective future.
It’s no secret our labor force has undergirded our economic success from the start. We boast the country’s second-most highly educated population, behind only Harvard’s backyard. A burgeoning, and bountifully paid, professional and business services sector that makes up a third of our workforce, from the feds to the financiers, the lawyers to the lobbyists. And a regular revolving door of powerbrokers that often opt to keep a D.C.-area address.
We’re not a manufacturing hub, no axis for agriculture. Our brainpower is our trade, a security blanket we’ve wrapped around us during past economic storms. It lured HQ2, Raytheon Technologies and Boeing here. We are a people economy, through and through.
And we’re losing those crucial, invaluable, indispensable, irreplaceable people, often to smaller…
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