Some College Graduates Will Get Paid to Live in Southwest or Southside Virginia
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24 responses to “Some College Graduates Will Get Paid to Live in Southwest or Southside Virginia”
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Sounds similar to the programs that exist for Physicians. I think part of that hope is they’ll put roots down and not leave and grown the community.
I think your statement in your soapbox moment is correct.
It also provides an incentive for recent college graduates from the region to return home to live and work, as well as attracting new college graduates to the area
As someone who was born in a small town (not VA) there were no prospects for me to return to. I enjoyed growing up there and a vast majority of my family still resides there. Giving some individuals the opportunity to maintain that closeness with their families is a fantastic thing.
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Oops, THIS is Northern Exposure come to Virginia.
My in-laws lived summers in a small town in NH. They had a real class act small hospital, and twice a year the whole town held a festival that involved auctions, parades, carnivals, etc., all profits to bonuses for doctors, staff and equipment purchases.
They boasted a high retention rate.
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One of the easier Win-Wins would be for Virginia to forgive student loans for those in the medical and K-12 fields in exchange for taking positions in rural areas with those needs.
We spend a lot of our time bickering over partisan issues rather than searching for non-partisan win-wins.
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Forgiving a student loan so that Podunk, Va. can have a doctor is a Commie plot.
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Good for them, most of us common folk don’t get to “summer live” anywhere but work.
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Most you common folk got 20+ more years of work until you make it to where they were in that position too. Keep smiling. You’ll get there. Alas, then you die shortly thereafter.
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No, most common people don’t get that even after 20 years.
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Well, depends on how much you want to spend. My brother-in-law has an old trailer on a piece of propery in western Mass. Cost him less than a car, a typical car.
But sadly, you’re right about one thing, fewer and fewer aren’t even making that long.
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Yet another – non-partisan, non-grievance public policy article Thank You.
And yes, once again, the left wing MSM reports: ” According to the Richmond-Times Dispatch and the Roanoke Times, to which I am indebted for calling attention to this program,”.. Where is the Conservative media?
And yes, along these same lines – one of the other biggies for rural Virginia is healthcare. Where is the Tobacco Commission on that?
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As Matt notes, there is a similar program for health care professionals, but that is administered by VDH.
As long as SW Virginia communities are spending their own money directly or indirectly (through the Tobacco Commission), then this is probably a good idea. I do hope they track the results to see how long the graduates stay.
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What is the original purpose of the Tobacco Commission?
Was it supposed to be compensation for the adverse health impacts of cigarettes?
Why are we doing economic development instead of rural health care with that money?
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Believe it or not … much of the tobacco commission funds had nothing to do with helping the victims of tobacco. Instead, they were used to subsidize those who grew the plant which killed millions.
On January 11, 1964 the Surgeon General released his first report documenting the health problems related to smoking. The writing was on the wall. 36 years later the Virginia General Assembly allocated 50% of the tobacco settlement funds to subsidize the farmers who continued to grow the crop for decades after it was known to be hazardous.
“Virginia has initially earmarked 50 percent of the money for tobacco growers — the same amount earmarked by neighboring North Carolina. Ten percent has been allocated to medical research and educational programs aimed at curbing youth smoking. The remaining 40 percent is being distributed at the General Assembly’s discretion.”Tobacco farmers and supporters can rest a little easier now knowing that the money is going to be spent with their best interests in mind,” said state Sen.Phillip P. Puckett, D-Lebanon, who represents a rural tobacco growing region of Virginia.”
10% allocated to the victims, 50% allocated to the farmers that grew the tobacco.
Your Imperial Clown Show in Richmond in action.
Since 1996 Altria has donated $7,461,499 to Virginia politicians.
In Virginia. about 9,200 adults die each year from smoking while another 1,600 die from second hand smoke. In other words, more Virginians die from smoking each year than died from COVID-19.
And the ass-clowns in the General Assembly used the tobacco money to subsidize the tobacco farmers 5 times more than to combat or treat smoking.
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New killer plant on the way. Legal July 1. I am certain Altria has already mapped out how to purchase influence in the era of Cannibis.
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If Virginia wanted to regulate RIGHT – some of the tax on alcohol and cigarettes and weed would go to Medicaid for substance abuse and related.
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That is great. Problem. Only white collar potheads are going to buy from a state endorsed pot shop and pay those taxes. They are so nifty and square and cool.
Everybody else, which is most users, are hitting the black market where there are no rules unless somebody is holding a firearm. -
Maybe – but plenty of taxes seem to come from alcohol and cigarettes.
We allow localities to collect taxes on cigarettes and instead of earmarking it for healthcare for people in their jurisdiction, they spend it on other things.
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Of course. They own the rolling machines.
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We actually agree on this.
For ALL the HOOPLA over the Medicaid Expansion and nursing homes and mental health needs – the tobacco money goes for other questionable economic development schemes.
We could have done some important and needed things that would have also helped taxpayers.
I don’t know who voted which way and don’t care whether they were D or R – but it was shortsighted and a disservice to taxpayers as well as those in need of health care in rural Va.
Here is a clarification. Some of the funding allocated to the Tobacco Commission was indeed used to indemnify individual farmers for their economic losses. It was determined that the indemnification was completed in 2013. Since then, the funds have been used solely to benefit the regions in order to help them transition away from tobacco as the chief cash crop.
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Yes. Appreciate that. But that kind of funding has a history of waste and money frittered away.
And that’s not so terrible on it’s face in some respects but when, at the same time, we have rural hospitals closing and deficits in healthcare for rural residents – and fights in the GA over Medicaid funding – … it’s just seems misappropriated to me – IMHO of course.
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You are correct about money frittered away. That was a major criticism of the Tobacco Commission for many years. That, and the lack of accountability. One of the previous executive directors (a former state Secretary of Finance, no less) was convicted of federal charges of embezzling over a $1 million from the commission. After that incident, the GA tightened up on the commission. Lately, a lot of money has been spent on scholarships and installation of broad band.
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This is a good program and will help a struggling southside Virginia. I noticed unemployment in Danville has finally eased up from levels unseen since 1990.
https://www.chathamstartribune.com/news/article_d3d308c2-5bf4-11eb-a4e0-271dfd00b665.html
Southside? I assume that’s the stretch from Emporia west? ‘Cause it means something entirely different ’round here.
Sounds like a good idea. Northern Exposure come to Virginia on a grander scale.
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