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"I did simulations of how much money I would save a year in Portugal, and I quickly realised that I wouldn't be able to have a comfortable life financially, even if I got one of the most well-paying jobs available in engineering for my experience level," says.

Established more than three decades ago, the program has yielded 4 million affordable homes, serving well over 9 million families and supporting millions of well-paying local jobs—all without a complex federal bureaucracy that puts decisionmaking at the state and local levels.

“Life-saving treatments for cancer, diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes, including in children, and new technologies and industries that translate into hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs are all at risk. America is first in research, but its dominance is not assured.”

“That’s a pretty well-paying job,” Okrepkie said.

In a state with high living costs, a dearth of well-paying jobs seems likely to bear responsibility for the state’s out-migration rate and its poverty rate, which the Census Bureau calculates, in its most comprehensive estimate, as 15.4%, one of the highest in the nation.