Keeping talent helps to grow jobs in R.I.

The surest way to combat the “brain drain” that is costing the state so many of the talented graduates from local colleges and universities is to create jobs for them when they are done with school. Better yet, how about helping them create their own jobs here? In large measure, that is exactly what a

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  1. This article is great. These are the types of things we need to be doing to get our state back on track. We need to work our assets to our benefit. We educate so many yet retain so few. That said, we should note that we also need to add an initiative to get many locals to leave Rhode Island…as so many threaten to do yet fail to accomplish. A lot of what is wrong with this state is the mentality of the under-educated local populous. They are an embarrassment to us and serve no useful purpose in society. I say we should shift the drain from sucking out the best and brightest to refocus it to remove much of our local scum. They are very easy to point out. They are full of negative opinions and no facts, do not work hard, apply for jobs for which they have no qualifications and have a very oversized sense of self worth. I’m sure you can name two or three of them in your own circumstances right off the top of your head. They must go.