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To: combjelly who wrote (689780)	12/23/2012 4:23:33 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572773

Not so fast. Most of the Right to Work states are in the South and the West. And most of those states were and still are, low wage states to begin with. But, that is changing because those states want to, and have been, attracting more high wage, usually tech jobs. Now those employees have a national market for their skills. The difference in regional wages is not as wide as it was prior to the 1990s. Especially in the larger cities. The favorite tactic of Right to Work states is to induce industry to move to their state by spending buckets of money and giving sizable tax breaks. Study after study shows that to be a pretty ineffectual way to bring prosperity to a state's citizenry but they continue to do it year in and year out.