<story><title>Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely</title><url>https://work.qz.com/1289727/vermont-will-pay-you-10000-to-move-there-and-work-remotely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unit91</author><text>From the law:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; (3) The Agency shall award grants under the Program on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to available funding, as follows: (A) not more than $125,000.00 in calendar year 2019...&lt;p&gt;With such a small budget, it seems like the actual intent may have been to allocate up to $125K to generate advertising about their state.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legislature.vermont.gov&amp;#x2F;assets&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;Docs&amp;#x2F;BILLS&amp;#x2F;S-0094&amp;#x2F;S-0094%20As%20Passed%20by%20Both%20House%20and%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legislature.vermont.gov&amp;#x2F;assets&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;Docs&amp;#x2F;B...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gk1</author><text>Yes, I was surprised by this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Vermont has budgeted grants for about 100 new remote workers in the first three years of the program and about 20 additional workers per year for every year after.&lt;p&gt;Vermont lost 10,000 working-age residents over the past five years.[1] This plan will (in theory) recover just ~1% of that.&lt;p&gt;Maybe they&amp;#x27;re monitoring reactions to this announcement before they put more money into the program? Otherwise I don&amp;#x27;t see how this is supposed to make any difference to their problem.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.burlingtonfreepress.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;money&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;vermont-aging-faster-than-rest-united-states&amp;#x2F;87263398&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.burlingtonfreepress.com&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;money&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;v...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely</title><url>https://work.qz.com/1289727/vermont-will-pay-you-10000-to-move-there-and-work-remotely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unit91</author><text>From the law:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; (3) The Agency shall award grants under the Program on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to available funding, as follows: (A) not more than $125,000.00 in calendar year 2019...&lt;p&gt;With such a small budget, it seems like the actual intent may have been to allocate up to $125K to generate advertising about their state.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legislature.vermont.gov&amp;#x2F;assets&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;Docs&amp;#x2F;BILLS&amp;#x2F;S-0094&amp;#x2F;S-0094%20As%20Passed%20by%20Both%20House%20and%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;legislature.vermont.gov&amp;#x2F;assets&amp;#x2F;Documents&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;Docs&amp;#x2F;B...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>As we are talking about living and working in Vermont on a technology focused news aggregation site, I would call that a success.&lt;p&gt;Part of the reasoning given in the article is to shore up the &amp;quot;rapidly sinking tax base&amp;quot; of the state and it reminds me that we don&amp;#x27;t have a good example of governments that both grow and shrink based on the economic activity of the state. That is something that could really help areas remain stable for longer periods of time I expect.</text></comment>