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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2019-12-10 07:41 am

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Since 2005, five metro areas — Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego — accounted for 90 percent of all US growth in “innovation sector” jobs, which Brookings defines as employment in the top science, technology, engineering, and math industries that include extensive research and development spending. Meanwhile, 343 metro areas lost a share of these jobs in that same period.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/9/21000162/high-tech-job-growth-concentration-brookings
https://www.brookings.edu/research/growth-centers-how-to-spread-tech-innovation-across-america/


High taxes and government regulations are good for innovation sector growth :)

[personal profile] malobukov 2019-12-10 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Grassroots like Sen. Michael N. Gianaris (D-Queens), City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), and Deputy Leader of the City Council James G. Van Bramer (D-Queens).