Why?
Why Should You Care?
The task of the Creative Economy Council was not to restate problems but rather to find solutions. The quotes that follow speak volumes about the need for transformation.
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Fresno’s future is not for ONE of us; it’s for all of us. If you care about having a tax base, if you care about being able to offer a hand up (not a hand out), if you care about creating spaces that our children
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WANT to come home to, then you care about this report.
Rebecca Ryan Next Generation Consulting and author of Hot Jobs-Cool Communities Report
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The region suffers from a brain drain unlike any other in California. The loss of its best and brightest is felt from Fresno south to the Tehachapi Mountains. When the area’s most educated residents leave, ‘it takes away from the culture and intellectual life of the valley,’ said George Raney, 67. It also hamstrings the economy, strains the social fabric and puts a damper on the quality of life here in California’s
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agricultural heartland.
Los Angeles Times Maria L. LaGanga November 20, 2005