Imagine Greater Tucson 2010-11 Phase I Community Conversation and Survey Statements Related to Growth of well-paid, high quality jobs

1	A lack of willingness to build roadways that handle traffic or tax advantages for large companies discourages jobs and, therefore, limits job opprotunities.
2	A large number of Tucson jobs are in the service industry, which is not often a long-term career goal and generally low-paying.
3	A literate population leads to better jobs, better education, improved economy, reduced crime rate...a stronger community!
4	Add more higher paying job opportunities
5	Add more job opportunities
6	Also, professionals plateau or spouse can't find a job here outside of defense, university, or science
7	Although the city wants to encourage Walmart to open up more stores to add to the number of available jobs, we need much more than low paid retail positions to satisfy the wealth of underemployed talent in our community, and we would do well to encourage our college graduates to want to make Tucson their home.
8	Attract businesses here that have solid middle-class jobs!
9	Because I want to get a good job
10	Been burgarized 4 times. Burglars are the unemployed, the addicts and lack skills so they prey on the rest of us. If we had jobs, education and more to offer, these marginal persons may choose an alternate way to survive.
11	Being left behind in attracting new, well paying jobs
12	Better / more opportunities for quality jobs
13	Better job opportunities
14	Better jobs
15	Better jobs, more varied economy
16	Better opportunity for my children to stay in Tucson and be employed. More economic resources to support the community - public spaces, arts, culture
17	Brain drain - need opportunities for young creatives to stay in Tucson - strong education starts here with K-12 education
18	Brain drain and youth-drain
19	Bring in businesses to provide more jobs
20	Bring more business to create jobs
21	Children would stay in area instead of moving to Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles.
22	City fathers and the business sector are too focused on service industry employment that maintain low paying jobs. Community leaders do not emphasize the importance of education. Nor do their want highly educated individuals in the community.
23	Common goals to improve an equality for all members of our community-better schools, better jobs
24	Concern for kids having a good education and quality job opportunities � we're creating a 3rd world country
25	Concerned for advancement
26	Create more base, good-paying jobs.
27	Create more jobs for people to get into
28	Create more jobs.
29	Create more of a diverse job market
30	Creation of more skilled jobs
31	Currently there are limited job opportunities for professionals. If you want to grow your career, you have to seriously consider leaving
32	Decent job market for skilled/educated workers alike though some job sectors are difficult at this time.
33	Do more to bring in good companies to offer more jobs.
34	Economic opportunity/career growth
35	Education - key to better jobs and the economy
36	Education and research make a quality University and increase jobs in the region
37	Educational institutions, particlulary public systems, are not supported or funded in a way that yields quality student achievement. This impacts economic opportunties and local businesses ability to attract and retain a highly skilled work force. Local students who are the most talented and skilled leave the community for better careers elsewhere.
38	Elevate the employment opportunities to more sophisticated industries
39	Emphasis must be on turning our kids with high scores to lead to higher paying jobs
40	Employment diversity and wage strenght
41	Employment for college - educated young adults
42	Employment opportunities
43	Employment opportunities (no opportunity for advancement)
44	Employment opportunities for young adults
45	Employment opportunity
46	Encourage more high quality jobs to come to the area
47	Every year we lose bright, talented individuals, who may love our town, but are forced to move to seek employment elsewhere....as a result we lose potential entrepanears, art scene, music scene, etc Tucson was a cool town once
48	Expand the number of non-service jobs
49	Far more employment opportunities
50	Find ways to employ people in Tucson
51	For the size of the town there are relatively few high paying technical jobs. This causes most intelligent skilled people to leave the area and pay taxes in other areas.
52	Get more jobs and jobs that pay a decent wage
53	Have a career with a great company that is part of a national initiative
54	Have a strong economy where our children can grow up, build a career and family
55	Have more jobs around
56	Having high-quality well-paying jobs helps our quality of life
57	Higher paying jobs
58	Hire local University grads
59	How many jobs are necessary to support greater population?
60	I am a creative person who needs room to roam in a career. I've been able to do what I enjoy as long as I've been willing to work hard and been able to be self employed for 25 years.
61	I am a research scientist and my spouse is an artist. Good career opportunities and a stimulating creative environment are important to me.
62	I can't work here because the jobs in my field are not available to me, if I wanted to work I would need to return to California
63	I don't have children but realize our local scholls are not preparing them adequetely for the future. Thos who are prepared don't stay here to work. Although I can see the tech park helping, we want local people to qualify to work there.
64	I feel as though I have very few choices of employers to maintain or improve my income for my education and experience level.
65	I feel like Tucson focuses too much in the older population, the snow birds and retirees. Tucson needs to keep young people here to help move it forward. There is nothing that attracts/retains younger people once they graduate. Not enough jobs that interest young people, not enough events that keep them happy here.
66	I feel that there needs to be an effort to bring more jobs to Tucson. Ne
67	I had wrung the job market dry in Massachusetts. There are far more employment opportunities here.
68	I have a stable job.
69	I see people with degrees working at low skill jobs.
70	I see these trends where we get Jobs that are here for a bit and then they move to another town or state. (Like call centers did.) I ask why is it that the one state of USA that doesn't need to use day light savings, not selling solar energy! Why are we still at the mercy of mining here dispite the damage it does to our lands? Because there are no other types of work that pay. We need more local industry that fits US!
71	I think Tucson needs to attract more business. Everything seems to be going to Phoenix Metro Area. There are not many jobs in the area.
72	I think our city has become the 'Call Center' of the Southwest. While these are jobs that I am grateful stayed here in the US they are not high paying jobs and would like to see other industries take advantage of our great weather and all we have to offer as a community. Please bring back Spring Training Baseball! It was such a great form of entertainment and brought in $$$ for the community because others wanted to escape the winter in the East and Midwest and enjoy our sunshine and a good ballgame!
73	I want more adults to be gainfully employed- able to support families
74	I want more career opportunities
75	I want to work and play in a flexible and creative environment. Tucson's business community and public sector are by in large old school and don't make accomodations - flex time, telecommuting, job sharing, etc -for the changing demographics.
76	I was laid off in March, and have yet to find good paying job. I don't want to have to move to Phoenix, but may do so just to get a good job. Need to develop good jobs HERE.
77	I went to U of A from 2000-2004 and have so many great memories from there. I still find myself there for a game, a run, or to go out to eat on campus at least once a week. A lot of friends went back to Scottsdale, Chicago, L.A.....after graduation. Most are jealous that I'm still here and so close to UofA. I just wish there were better jobs available here for U of A graduates.
78	I work three jobs and still can't make ends meet. And I have a masters degree and motivation to succeed.
79	I would like / dream of having a Tucson where hard work can get you a comfortable life, unlike now, no matter how hard you work you are lucky to just get by, unless you are from out of state and came here with boque bucks.
80	I would like every person in the city to feel safe and cared for: every child should get a good education, and every person should have access to affordable, quality health care; a safe place to live; food security; and the opportunity for regular (preferably meaningful, useful) work.
81	I would like to live in a community where I could have multiple choices of employment and my kids could be employed here. Bring business here and then see how good it gets!
82	I would like to see more high quality indutries and jobs come to Tucson, e.g., Roche, Advanced Ceramics (Sahuarita), Optical and solar indurstries. Tucson is a really neat place, but could definitely use a higher percentage of educated and dynamic people.
83	I would like to see people's children and grandchildren to stay in Tucson, but if there are no jobs, then they have to leave
84	I'd like to see more opportunity for higher-skilled work and pay for my community.
85	I've been out of work over a year and have started applying to jobs in Phoenix as I can't find work as a creative professional in Tucson. There is very little going on here for creatives.
86	If people had better jobs there will be more revenue from taxes enabling for improvements with regard to education, streets, and public services
87	If the community ever wants to have more good paying jobs it must place more emphasis on education and it must provide the resources to support education. Charter schools are not a solution. There must be far less emphasis on athletics in schools and the university
88	If there is not a sufficient well educated work force, then the mix of businesses operating here will lessen, and the types of people relocating here will become predominently hourly workers.
89	If your not in Govt. you can't find a good job, IE: local / county/ state Govt. UA Raytheon Davis Monthan all govt. jobs
90	In 2 years I couldn't find a job that I can work. All of the markets want somebody that speaks English well
91	Incentivize infill for housing and for industries that provide technical employment.
92	Increase availability of housing and jobs, modernize the community, contribute to a variety of businesses
93	Increase jobs/opportunities that pay above a living wage
94	Increase number of and better jobs
95	Increase professional job opportunities
96	Increase tax base, increase number of skilled jobs for people in area. We loose many of our well educated UA graduates to other cities because we do not have jobs for them here
97	It is NOT a sign of a healthy community to have so many residents, including children, struggling to get by. We are a low wage community, and many have lost their jobs or have had hours cut back. There are thousands who are homeless.
98	It is unlikely that my kids will be able to find meainingful work in Tucson after graduating from college. This is a travesty. The result of a corrupt city charter is that the city government and general debate is held captive to extreme special intrest groups the majority of whom seem to favor plocies that are anathema to a healthy economy. I travel extensively and Tucson is an embarrasment.
99	It is very hard to find a good job in Tucson, and it's hard to lure people to good jobs here because they will feel 'stuck' if they want to change jobs.
100	It seems that more effort should go into attracting large-scale manufacturing and high-tech businesses to the area. Creating the right climate to attract such businesses would also grow the ancillary, support businesses that wouuld follow. Both would then increase quality job opportunities for our citizens.
101	It's sad to see all these people fall in love with the University and Tucson only to find jobs elsewhere.
102	Its job base
103	Job market
104	Job opportunities and wages
105	Job opportunities, wages, and education
106	Job opportunities/salaries
107	Jobs and education are linked closely to the quantity and quality of business and industry available to a region. More knowledge workers and cutting edge industries in Tucson could help to protect the region from construction slumps and poor tax revenues. A diverse local economy also means less people out of work as the national economy cycles. I know that the quality of our schools can be an obstacle to attracting knowledge workers, which leads me to my next point.
108	Jobs at all levels
109	Keep graduates and kids
110	Keep our youth in our community
111	Knowledge retention
112	Lack of a well educated job pool, poor schools make it difficult to recruit high level employees and new industry.
113	Lack of diversification of employment opportunities
114	Lack of employment opportunties
115	Lack of good jobs for creative professionals
116	Lack of jobs for spouses
117	Lack of opportunities for professionals in middle to upper middle professions
118	Lack of professional opportunity - a one job town
119	Lack of quality jobs
120	Lack of skilled jobs outside of aerospace
121	Lack of variety of types of jobs
122	Local brain drain (college grads are likely to leave the region)
123	Low quality jobs place barriers to building strong communities
124	Make Tucson a place where good employment abounds
125	More / better �real� jobs, not just �McJobs�
126	More and better jobs for citizens
127	More and better jobs.
128	More and better paying jobs
129	More better paying jobs.
130	More challenging work opportunities for young people
131	More diverse job opportunities
132	More high quality jobs
133	More high-paying jobs
134	More higher paying job opportunities
135	More industry would increase job opportunities, especially in professional industries where the tax base is higher
136	More industry, enterprise, and jobs
137	More interesting and well paying jobs.
138	More job opportunities
139	More job opportunities.
140	More jobs
141	More jobs need to be available
142	More jobs that are better paying
143	More jobs to our area of all kinds of course would be better for the area's economy. That helps us all including myself.
144	More jobs with purpose for youth
145	More jobs, higher paying
146	More law enforcement (for public safety as well as jobs)
147	More middle and high-end jobs
148	More opportunities for interesting jobs.
149	More professional job opportunities
150	More professional jobs
151	More professional opportunities
152	More well paying jobs
153	My children don't live here because there are no jobs. U of A grads need jobs to stay in this community.
154	My husband and I have been fortunate to find jobs here and have carved out professional niches. I cannot say that for many of my friends and colleagues, who wanted to stay here post college/grad school, but found the opportunites limiting. Even though my husband and I have good jobs here, we often wonder if we are limiting ourselves professionally by staying here. We love the area, and have deep family roots here, and will stay as long as we can continues to professionally thrive. I just wish that there were more opportunites for well paying jobs here. I have been very encouraged by the recent news of Roche bringing well-paying jobs to the area. Lets have more than that!
155	My husband can't find a job and all other jobs are professional
156	Need more high paying jobs
157	Need more jobs
158	Need more jobs for U of A graduates
159	Need more jobs that pay higher wages
160	Need more professional opportunities � diverse � high end
161	Need to attract more jobs/companies
162	Need to make this a place where are children and grandchildren want to stay because of job opportunities
163	Needs more substantial employment
164	No jobs
165	Not enough jobs
166	Not enough jobs for professionals
167	Not enough jobs or training at the technical level
168	Our children will stay in Tucson if they can afford to. To afford to live here they need a good job and a career path to grow over their lifetime.
169	Our economy isn't diverse enough and there aren't enough well-paying jobs - too many service sector.
170	Our future is dependent upon our next generations be provided the opportunities that will allow them to become productive citizens growing our community and our economy. Stymying education at every turn only harms our future.
171	Our poor education system promotes lower paying jobs and an inability to attract companies to relocate here.
172	People with education leave when they might stay here and feel passionately about making Arizona great
173	Provide a higher level of jobs
174	Quality jobs
175	Quality jobs allow the individual to express their best talents and gifts
176	Raises standard of living for the whole community
177	Recruit non-government funded/supported higher paying jobs to Tucson.
178	Reduce crime - reduce crime by increasing jobs and better education
179	Retain more U of A graduates
180	Selling Tucson's soul to housing developers sucks the vitality out of the city, makes undeveloped desert areas further from midtown, creates a vast service economy instead of good, professional jobs
181	Service-sector base does not make for jobs that make families economically self-sufficient. Lack of middle-class jobs, as well. Hi-tech is great, but doesn't accommodate many of our residents' career abilities.
182	So I and my family and our neighbors can sustain living here
183	So it could provide more jobs
184	Stratification of job opportunities
185	Stresses in today's economy makes more jobs critical
186	Students who graduate from the university are leaving Tucson for higher paying jobs elsewhere. We must create more jobs and opportunities. We must fight for great companies to move here.
187	THERE ARE NO JOBS TO KEEP US HERE
188	The University of Arizona is our crown jewel fueling knowledge based discoveries and high tech job growth, sporting events, fine arts and so much more. We have arts, culture (from southwestern/hispanic/tribal to symphony/Arizona Theatre/UA presents/museums), restaurants, sports (outdoor and spectator), mountains and deserts, plants and wildlife, gem shows and rodeo.
189	The ability to be stimulated professionally is very important to me
190	The best and brightest young people will leave if the percieve they cannot have a fulfilling career. That results in a downward spiral.
191	The dearth of good jobs leads us to lose many of our good young people.
192	The future is our children and education is critical for their future success. It is also critical to the quality of growth in our region as it impacts attracting quality jobs to our area. I do not understand why we put such a low priority on K-12 education.
193	The importance of this is it helps business professionals and the overall atmosphere. Creating jobs and support for these people would help to create a better Tucson
194	The jobs should be improved. There should be more
195	The lack of excellent public education for all is a serious detriment jobwise, politically, etc. The lack of public education, including much more adult education, is very discouraging.
196	The mines south of Tucson have devastated the beautiful desert and mountain views, and have created many environmental hazards. They have brought a few jobs to the area, however the price was not worth twice the number of jobs.
197	The need to provide employment goes hand and hand with improving the region and state. It would also give the young graduates from the U of A and etc. a reason to stay and improve our community, not take their education and ideas somewhere else because there's nothing for them here.
198	The region has so much to offer, but the government seems to reject the most important concept. In order to support a million people, there have to be jobs. There needs to be creative thinking in attracting corporate headquarters. I want my children to stay & work in Tucson!
199	The way to lower crime is to create new jobs. Jobs mean training and education. Happily employed people do not turn to crime.
200	There are few high-paying jobs and professionally our move to Tucson has been very limiting for me.
201	There are lots of people out of work right now. More technology, innovation, manufacturing, small power production, etc... Less commercial, payday loans, stores, failed small businesses, etc...
202	There are not a lot of higher end jobs available here in Tucson.
203	There aren't enough jobs in Tucson.
204	There is not much to keep my teens here after they grad from College, more higher paying jobs.
205	There is only one company that provides thousands of jobs for professionals in the engineering area. If we loose our jobs, we most likely will be forced to move back to our hometowns.
206	To learn english and obtain a better job
207	Too complicated to fit in this space. Let's start with more jobs and higher pay for our local legal residents.
208	Too many Young college graduates are having to choose between staying in Tucson and working retail at minimum wage because there are so few professional jobs to be had and too many people competing for them, and moving out of state in order to support themselves financially.
209	Too many low wage jobs (we lure firms that want "cheap" labor)
210	Transportation infrastructure needed for good jobs
211	Tucson has a reputation for low pay and a lot of low-class employment opportunities. Raising the standard of this community is a multifaceted project that requires education, opportunity and investment in work that means something to the individual as well as the nation. More partnerships with the University Of Arizona and clean businesses should be formed and long-range plans for creating fertile start-up incubator parks must be laid down.
212	Tucson in a great place to live, raise a family if you have a good job...But Tucson has never had a strong job market...More and better jobs are necessary..ones not based on construction or growth.
213	Tucson needs to get serious about attracting Bio tech and High tech industries and the quality of well paying jobs that come with them. Tucson can not thrive on service sector jobs for the masses.
214	Tucson's vision should be to become the biotechnology capital of the southwest. Without a platform like this, higher paying jobs and therefore better educated citizens will continue to bypass Tucson.
215	Type of jobs and better paying jobs
216	U of A and other higher education organizations provide for both post secondary and adult learning opportunities. This has resulting in an excellent job base with the U of A & their Tech Park, Oro Valley Bio-Tech and Raytheon/defense based contractors. We need to attract and maintain more high-end jobs.
217	U of A � big economic employer & students
218	Uncontrolled development destroys the desert and obscures the mountains. It uses more water than we have. And it does nothing to create permanent jobs.
219	Unless you are linked to Raytheon, it seems that every other job is about a $10 an hour job. There is not much in between for people that are qualified to earn more, but not as much as software engineers.
220	Want business, job and economic growth for our city. Opportunity for kids to get decent jobs here. The city has not changed since I graduated from college. Outlaying areas (Oro Valley, Marana, Sahuarita, Vail) are growing and more progressive.
221	We are losing alot of officers through retirement etc. we need to replace them and provide for better equipment to the officers.
222	We can't fix the transportation system without affecting other things. We need to develop higher paying jobs or kids can't stay. Need balance, but we can't sacrifice the environment to create jobs. Finding that balance between all of this is a true challenge
223	We continue to lose the intellectual leaders at our university because of the pay and lack of support from the legislature. We're also losing the youth who do not see Tucson as a place to stay for their careers.
224	We don't have much in the sense of high paying and diverse jobs
225	We have a flagship university here with concrete professions (engineering, the sciences, etc.) but they can't find work here
226	We have no industry to create quality jobs, and we will continue to fail to draw industry until we provide a quality education system in this state.
227	We have problems in our community with brain drain. People leave Tucson because they have little options educationally
228	We lack the manufacturing base and need quality employment opportunities here locally
229	We need another big company like Raytheon. Not another missile company. We need a solar company, that will create more jobs. 10,000 jobs.
230	We need better jobs here to attract and retain talent
231	We need more high level jobs. I have a great job but we need more professionals.
232	We need more opportunities for our young people
233	We need more quality jobs
234	We need to attract new companies to Tucson that hire educated, local people. I want children to have the opportunity to work locally in a high paying company.
235	We need to continue to look at ways to grow more jobs in the Tucson community. Looking to improve employment at all levels.
236	We need to decide as a community which jobs we value, and work to promote and attract them
237	We need to get more industry into Tucson and create jobs
238	We need to survive. we need to put an end to the Tucson brain drain and keep our young people in town.
239	We need to work on our public education in order to make this a place attractive to companies with high-paying wages. We should not be going after call-centers and other unskilled, low paying companies. We should be going after optics, high-tech companies. They require a skilled work force, however. If that means slashing administrator jobs in order to pay teachers better, closing some schools in order to focus energy, money on a more select set of schools: do it! Focus on teachers, the kids, and BASICS that are now counted as frivolous extras to be cut: art, music, languages, P.E. I had a first class public education here from 1st through 12th grade, one that sent me to Stanford, Oxford and Harvard Universities. I worry that our public schools will not serve my children nearly as well. Also, we need to partner better with the U of A. It has been--and should remain a driving force here. Let's work on keeping more of its graduates as the loyal and proud business, entrepreneurial, and artistic engines that drive and shape this town. At the moment, I fear that the UA is more interested in its proposed medical campus in Phx than it is in its home base campus here in Tucson.
240	We should have more jobs
241	We want to keep Tucson a place that offers good jobs so we don't lose talent. If we offer good jobs, good school a vibrant downtown and acces to teh art, Tucson can be a great place to stay.
242	We won't attract businesses or quality employees - we need a good education base
243	Were a service sector base which is not sustainable
244	When I work with young people they too often say, 'I'm finishing school and then I'm outta here!' A lot of companies have left or reduced numbers in Tucson - IBM, National Semiconductor, 3M to name a few. Opportunities are very limited for young people to start good careers for the long haul. Something needs to happen to induce businesses to come and stay here.
245	When the best and the brightest start to leave the community, you have a brain drain
246	Without good paying jobs, new community members will not purchase homes from us.
247	Without quality jobs and spendable income, we can never do the things we need to do to make Tucson a beautiful and vibrant community - the 'jewel of the southwest'.
248	Work together to bring more jobs to Tucson
249	Would like to Tucson to be a mecca for industry leaders in solar/alternative energy technology and use; not only to address global warming, but to bolster our flagging economy with high-tech jobs in an industry that makes sense to our region. Think of all the abandoned strip mines (Bisbee leaps to mind) that could be filled with solar panels to generate electricity).
250	Would like to see more professional job opportunities
251	Young families and good jobs need to be backed by
252	Young professional brain drain
253	Young professionals leave for better opportunities elsewhere