71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working. - The Wall Street Journal

Incentives are drawing high-paid tech workers, and challenging how we think about local economic development.

A growing number of cities and towns all over the U.S. are handing out cash grants and other perks aimed at drawing skilled employees of faraway companies to live there and work remotely. A handful o… [+837 chars]

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