KTAR News – Arizona Economic Expert Wants State to Keep Attracting Newcomers
Arizona should keep making available the kinds of career opportunities that are already drawing a workforce from around the country and fueling the state’s growth, according to a Valley economist.
“If we don’t maintain a competitive economic development profile, then these people from California will end up in Texas or to our north in Utah. We need to take advantage of our opportunities,” Jim Rounds of Tempe-based Rounds Consulting Group told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Tuesday.
The population percentage growth in Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Texas – despite the COVID-19 pandemic – is directly tied to opportunity, he said.
Arizona, Idaho and Utah have fully recovered the jobs that were lost during the initial phase of the pandemic. For Arizona that was about 320,000 jobs.
