“Arizona is Doing the Dumbest Thing of All”

Living in Arizona, sometimes we can’t see the proverbial forest for the trees…we don’t have the perspective on ourselves that others might.

A recent LA Times article gives us some perspective of what the outside world thinks.

The Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at Toronto’s School of Management, University of Toronto Richard Florida says, “”Arizona is doing the dumbest thing of all,” he says. “Arizona sends out a message to the world that you’re not welcome here. ‘We don’t want new and different people here.’ It’s tragic for Arizona and it’s bad for us as a whole.”

The article discusses Florida’s new book, “The Great Reset” which outlines ideas about how the North American economy will rebound.

The article goes on to say,”Many crucial U.S. knowledge and tech workers are foreign-born, and Florida’s research demonstrates that highly skilled labor needs lesser-skilled workers to support and sustain it.”