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re: Study: Louisiana loses college grads to Texas and other states
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:37 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:37 am to SlowFlowPro
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I mean decreasing the population of people who would remain in LA as educated potential producers is a bold strategy given the context of OP
You lose fewer college grads if they go away for college and never return.
Close down all the universities = You'll rarely lose college grads again. Problem solved (on paper at least).
That's sarcasm BTW.
This post was edited on 6/6/23 at 11:38 am
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Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:40 am to BobABooey
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I get what you’re saying but that will just help drive up enrollment at universities like Arkansas and Alabama that are generous with scholarships for out of state students. At least with TOPS you have some additional time to give them a reason to stay after college.
This is true. With TOPS, LSU is slightly cheaper and competitive with other SEC schools like Alabama, Miss St., Ole Miss, and Arkansas. You take away TOPS and it's cheaper for kids to leave LA and go to those schools.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:05 pm to member12
We know
The state and its citizens support TOPS and these graduates leave the state. It’s bull shite and they should have to work in the state for a number of years or pay back a % of their scholarship
The state and its citizens support TOPS and these graduates leave the state. It’s bull shite and they should have to work in the state for a number of years or pay back a % of their scholarship
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:09 pm to member12
This is news?
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:09 pm to member12
They had to do a study? I could told them that for far less over a cup of coffee.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:09 pm to member12
quote:Seems at odds with the overall dire tone of the story.
Louisiana does fairly well, in 17th place, when it comes to keeping and attracting college grads compared to other states, according to a paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research and an analysis by the Washington Post last year.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:11 pm to member12
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Louisiana loses college grads to Texas and other states
Water is wet.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:12 pm to member12
1) Shaw
2) Amedisys
3) Bluecross BlueShield
4) Albemarle
What do we have left? CenturyLink & Entergy and then lower tier Community Coffee & HE Equipment etc. Higher paying white collar jobs are just hard to come by and when you do... don't expect to be thoroughly trained by a Louisiana company. Better to leave louisiana to get the skills and return; however, you probably won't return after you see that the grass is indeed greener on the other side of the state line.
2) Amedisys
3) Bluecross BlueShield
4) Albemarle
What do we have left? CenturyLink & Entergy and then lower tier Community Coffee & HE Equipment etc. Higher paying white collar jobs are just hard to come by and when you do... don't expect to be thoroughly trained by a Louisiana company. Better to leave louisiana to get the skills and return; however, you probably won't return after you see that the grass is indeed greener on the other side of the state line.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:17 pm to fallguy_1978
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I have 2 kids and will encourage them to look outside of Louisiana for college and beyond
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I've encouraged our youngest to leave after college if she doesn't go out of state for that.
Same here.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:19 pm to member12
Keep voting democrat though
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:21 pm to Nelson Biederman IV
quote:wut
the population south of Alexandria values “one of us” above all else.
Get this bogus bullshite out of here
The good ol boy country bumpkins on the north end are just as corrupt. shite you could argue North Louisiana breed the Longs which we are still feeling the long dicking they put on the state
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:22 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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TOPS needs to go
Agree. Can’t complain about lack of white collar jobs if there are no white collar professionals. Learn to throw the chain.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:26 pm to mthorn2
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1) Shaw
Weren't they bought out?
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3) Bluecross BlueShield
I thought BCBS of LA was recently bought out too
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CenturyLink
only a matter of time...
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Entergy
I don't understand how they are still headquartered here.
Hey, we will have Reily Foods and Pool Corp
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:30 pm to Roberteaux
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Weren't they bought out?
Thats the point. All 4 of them were bought out and employees moved out of state. Theres not really a corporate american presence in this state...anymore.
Hard to blame kids for leaving after college.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:36 pm to member12
I’m from a small town in South Louisiana. After beginning my career here, after 5 years, I knew the only way for me to “move up the company ladder” , was to move to Houston. I really do love my hometown, but there was just no corporate advancement opportunity had I stayed.
If we can ever harness the power of teleportation from all these UFOs were apparently capturing, I’d moved back to my small hometown in a heartbeat, and simply beam myself to Houston, whenever I needed to be here.
If we can ever harness the power of teleportation from all these UFOs were apparently capturing, I’d moved back to my small hometown in a heartbeat, and simply beam myself to Houston, whenever I needed to be here.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:42 pm to member12
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architecture
Because of all the sky scrapers across this country.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:08 pm to member12
They also lose the best high school grads to out of state schools. I am not talking about Ivy League schools, but SEC schools. Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss and Arkansas recruit our top graduates and offer them ridiculous scholarships.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:19 pm to member12
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Study: Louisiana loses college grads to Texas and other states
Who would have thought a welfare state would lose educated people to areas that have real job opportunities? There are very few types of jobs that can garner good pay and benefits and even then you have to put up with a dysfunctional government whose main role to give crumbs to the least worthy individuals while failing to perform their function.
I got a good job but the state is so aggravating to live in. I have replaced every windshield on every vehicle I have owned for 20 years now and had 6 chips fixed in my current one that is only 2 years old. Hell can't even get the parish to repave the road in a subdivision. The home owners insurance is sky high. Car insurance rivals what I use to pay in super expensive Hawaii. The roads look trashed, the upkeep of infrastructure looks like an apocalyptic scene and to top it off, grtting the local or state to do anything that they were paid for is absolutely next to impossible.
I'm in the process of looking at other jobs out of state and have a second interview with a company in Houston. If they can even get me to same income level, I will most certainly consider it with a better than 50/50 chance of taking it just to live in a better area.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:23 pm to member12
Louisiana is a shite Hole
This post was edited on 6/6/23 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:27 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Texas has the most upside of any state rn
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