Texas employers may lose skilled workers as a result of the restrictive abortion law that went into effect on Wednesday. According to a new poll, 66% of college-educated workers say the law would discourage them from taking a job in the Lone Star State.
made by fathers, the stakes are high. The struggles to stay engaged and find child care amid the pandemic add to that burden. As Jen Stark, the director of corporate strategy at Tara Health, says of Texas: “Why would you do that to your workforce?"
While the new abortion ban doesn’t appear to have prompted companies to openly scrap plans to move to the Lone Star State, it has dampened the enthusiasm of college-educated workers like Marc Cartright. He was considering relocating from the Bay Area to Texas with his wife, who works at an ag-tech company with a budding presence in the Austin area. While the couple calculated that they could save a “non-trivial” amount of money through the move, Cartright says the new law derailed those plans.
“I just kind of killed the deal in my head right then and there,” says Cartright, who finds the law’s citizen-based enforcement mechanism to be especially “draconian” and inconsistent with the Texan spirit of independence. Another key factor in the couple’s decision was their daughter. “I think this speaks to how the state views women, like they don’t know how to make their own decisions or something,” Cartright says. “In some respects, they’re codifying the fact that they see women as lesser. And so how else are they going to be treating my daughter as she grows up?”
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