Interesting to note...
Married people with children tend to be both successful and motivated, precisely the people who make economies go. They are twice as likely to be in the top 20% of income earners, according to the Census, and their incomes have been rising considerably faster than the national average.
Indeed, if you talk with recruiters and developers in the nation's fastest growing regions, you find that the critical ability to lure skilled workers, long term, lies not with bright lights and nightclubs, but with ample economic opportunities, affordable housing and family friendly communities not too distant from work. "People who come here tend to be people who have long commutes elsewhere, and who have young children," notes Pat Riley, president of Alan Tate company, a large residential brokerage in Charlotte, N.C. "They want to be somewhere where they don't miss their kids growing up because there's no time."
Be sure to read the whole thing. I believe that part of the challenge for Kingman and it's future lies with attracting the so called Millennial generation. I know that the Boomer generation is also slated to come this way, but successful working families will mean much more to the economy and the health of the city. Plus, if the efforts to attract working families are successful, those folks will live and add to the prosperity of Kingman for a much longer time. To me it is the better long term investment to make and it MUST be part of the equation for planning the future of Kingman.
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