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[deleted] t1_iydomy6 wrote

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phdoofus t1_iydpasx wrote

Also, people physically leaving a place does not mean they are no longer working their job located in that place.

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GherkinEnthusiast t1_iydqks0 wrote

Is overeducated code for 'not enough people to do undesirable, low-paying jobs'?

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Ven18 t1_iydqj1f wrote

Particularly with how prevalent remote work has gotten in just a few years.

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Schadrach t1_iye6hdu wrote

This could be a part of it. The brightest blue states on the chart tend to be places with relatively low cost of living vs California at the opposite end of that scale. Getting paid a SF or LA area salary while living in WV or WY will make that money stretch a lot farther.

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refreshing_username t1_iydtj8y wrote

Yeah...the variations here would probably be mostly noise in a statistical trend if you looked over a longer time frame.

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SciFiPi t1_iydrd7l wrote

WV also has incentive programs to lure people to the state, to the tune of ~$20k. It's not the only state doing this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/12/what-states-are-offering-to-get-you-to-move-and-join-their-workforce.html

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Schadrach t1_iye4b4v wrote

WV paid for my college to get me to stay there, work commitment of 1 year per semester they paid for, had to maintain a certain GPA, and it had to be a state funded college. Failure to meet the work commitment would have made it convert to a loan at the highest rate of any federally backed student loan at that time. With those caveats it was essentially a full ride.

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MarinaDelRey1 t1_iydsd0u wrote

One year is way too small of a sample size. Everyone knows that California has been losing residents to other states for nearly two decades. What is often missed in the anti-California rhetoric is that there has consistently been a net inward migration of individuals with $50,000+ household income and at least a college degree. It has been the low-income, uneducated residents leaving the state. I’m guessing Covid was an outlier year and that the trend of highly educated, high income earnings flocking to California continues

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nofftastic t1_iydthz4 wrote

The only conclusion that can be reached is OP cherry picked data to intentionally misrepresent educational trends. By their own source, the percentage of bachelor degrees has trended upward over the last 15 years.

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