Interesting
Nov. 21st, 2005 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundSince I have some friends from Fresno, they might find this article of interest:
Fresno's Brain Drain Has Left the Town Smarting
"But Raney, a linguistics professor at Cal State Fresno, has worries beyond his own parental predicament, for his children are not the only ones who've left the struggling southern San Joaquin Valley. 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 Raney, 67.
It also hamstrings the economy, strains the social fabric and puts a damper on the quality of life here in California's agricultural heartland."
Fresno's Brain Drain Has Left the Town Smarting
"But Raney, a linguistics professor at Cal State Fresno, has worries beyond his own parental predicament, for his children are not the only ones who've left the struggling southern San Joaquin Valley. 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 Raney, 67.
It also hamstrings the economy, strains the social fabric and puts a damper on the quality of life here in California's agricultural heartland."
