“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased;”
Attracting Workers
Our goal should be to create an environment that creates, retains, and attracts high-skilled workers to Arizona. Creating high-skilled workers is a matter of education, which is covered elsewhere, but retaining and attracting high-skilled workers means we need to understand what those workers want from the place they live. Things like:
Safety
Education and Child Care
Housing
Healthcare
Acceptance
Safety means reducing violent crime, which means creating policies and investing in programs that are effective at reducing violent crime: education, drug treatment, mental healthcare, and economic opportunity, for instance, all target some of the root causes of violent crime while also benefiting society as a whole.
Strong education and child care opportunities attract parents and people planning to start a family.
Housing means having access to affordable places to live. (This has the added benefit of helping to reduce homelessness, which further helps to reduce crime and lessen the strain on our healthcare industry.)
Healthcare means having access to quality health professionals as well as being able to afford their services.
Acceptance means that people won’t be discriminated against for their race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. The modern workforce is diverse, and we all benefit by embracing that diversity.