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If you focus on the high-tech, speciality jobs that NABF will be bringing in then, yes, that will have a minimal impact directly on poverty. However, NABF will need a variety of other jobs done that include entry-level work, service work, etc., and many of those jobs come with training opportunities that can be of great benefit for low-income citizens. Talking with a friend of mine from church who works in the animal sciences field, he noted that for each scientist employed, you probably have a staff of 10 or so folks who support him, and most of those are folks with less developed skill sets.
Plus, NABF has the very real potential to bring in additional jobs not only related to the biosciences field, but also areas of employment that support the individuals who work there. It has the chance to be an engine, which is something we need.
If you focus on the high-tech, speciality jobs that NABF will be bringing in then, yes, that will have a minimal impact directly on poverty. However, NABF will need a variety of other jobs done that include entry-level work, service work, etc., and many of those jobs come with training opportunities that can be of great benefit for low-income citizens. Talking with a friend of mine from church who works in the animal sciences field, he noted that for each scientist employed, you probably have a staff of 10 or so folks who support him, and most of those are folks with less developed skill sets.
Plus, NABF has the very real potential to bring in additional jobs not only related to the biosciences field, but also areas of employment that support the individuals who work there. It has the chance to be an engine, which is something we need.
posted by Jmac at 7:54 AM
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Amen. Hope you will send this to the ABH as well.
I agree. There are lots of people out there who think NBAF would be great for us, but they're not writing letters to the ABH. If those of us who feel it should come here remain silent, then we're basically being complicit w/ the anti-NBAF folks.
Dude, there are a lot more of you than there are of the people who are opposed to it. You are not that silent a majority.
That may be, but you wouldn't guess it from the ABH --and given that the local press coverage is one of the things they will look at to determine community acceptance...
Actually, Flora Tydings, President of Athens Tech frequently says that it takes 16 people to support each research scientist and she's training them as fast as she can but program space is limited.
I don't pretend to know what all those 16 people do but I don't think she is just making those numbers up out of thin air. Every person who graduates from her programs has a job waiting for them.
That may be, but you wouldn't guess it from the ABH --and given that the local press coverage is one of the things they will look at to determine community acceptance...
Well, to reference Jmac's SNL reference (I know that's too much reference) accusations of 'bloodletting and boar's vomit" are more entertaining than discussions of "experimentation and scientific method."
I frankly don't have an opinion about any of it, but it's easier to colorfully express fear and outrage in a letter to the editor than a reasoned "wait and see" approach."
I frankly don't have an opinion about any of it, but it's easier to colorfully express fear and outrage in a letter to the editor than a reasoned "wait and see" approach."
I think that's probably true. But, to quote (or perhaps paraphrase) old Edmund Burke, no one ever made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he thought he could only do a little.
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