re: TOPS meant to keep college educated people in LA, instead it is funding TX's workforce

The day after I graduated LSU I left the state of Louisiana for good. Thank you taxpayers!

There's plenty of ways skilled talent leaves Louisiana. TOP's was not an option for me, but I left as well. It's the lack of good jobs. You want a smart, rich population? You need education AND good jobs. Louisiana has education, but a dog-shite job market.

Yep, that was me.

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Or find ways to make this damn state more attractive to stay. The only positive thing this state can boast about is adding half a million people to Medicaid expansion.

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Here's an idea - why don't we lower taxes with the savings we'll have from forcing graduates to pay back TOPS if they leave?

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Why should someone have to remain in the state they were educated in?

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It's worth considering if that state paid for them to attend.

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Like TOPS?

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Nice try, but no. Not like TOPS.

How so many of you are against higher education for all blows my mind. I understand there are flaws within academia but it sure as frick beats working at a contractors supply house pulling orders for 3 decades.

And don't start with the trade bullshite. Trades are fantastic when there is work and when the apprenticeship programs are thriving. But when there is no work, they aren't admitting. And when there IS work, they are super selective because everyone wants in.

Getting people into environments where they can learn, even if they aren't exactly sure of their goals, is a GOOD thing for an economy long-term.

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It's worth considering if that state paid for them to attend.

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So kind of like an indentured servant system.

But yet every article or opinion The Advocate publishes between 1/1/19 and 11/15/19 championed JBE and his policies. Most of which ignored these type of facts and their underlying cause—-the best jobs are leaving the state and as a result the best people are following them out of the state. This article is a joke and should have been published in the first week of November. The Advocate under Georges has become a joke and refuses to question anything within the SWB or JBE administrations. Yet it will constantly criticize average city ends for making decisions that they believe will provide them with a safer and more financially secure life ( moving out of state, creating SG, etc).

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Exactly. If we would just end sanctuary cities and work on our car insurance the economy would be booming. We had our chance....

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Rispone ran a horrible campaign but that certainly does not give JBE a pass.