Survey: Two Thirds of College-Educated Workers May Avoid Texas Because Of Abortion Ban

[dalton99a]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2021/09/02/survey-two-thirds-of-college-educated-workers--may-avoid-texas-because-of--abortion-ban/

Sep 2, 2021, 08:00am EDT
Survey: Two Thirds of College-Educated Workers May Avoid Texas Because Of Abortion Ban
Maggie McGrath

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 by PerryUndem, 66% of college-educated workers say they would not take a job in a state that prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, as Texas now does after the U.S. Supreme Court failed to intervene on Senate Bill 8. Roughly half of respondents said they would consider moving out of a state that passed such restrictions.

More than 85% of abortions happen after the six-week mark, so the Texas law amounts to a near-complete ban on the procedure. Along with banning abortions at a point when most women do not even know they are pregnant, SB 8 makes no exception for rape or incest, and it also allows private citizens to sue those who perform, “aid or abet” an abortion. The legislation imposes the harshest restrictions of any state, setting the scene for a challenge to the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.

As echoed in other polls, the majority of respondents (80%) said that they do not want the Roe v. Wade ruling overturned (though polling did not dive into the intricacies of possible limitations to the law), and the same proportion said they feel that access to abortion is an “important” part of women’s rights and gender equity. PerryUndem conducted the survey on behalf of the Tara Health Foundation, which aims to improve the health of women and girls, with support from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies. Researchers surveyed a national sample of 1,804 adults between the ages of 18 and 64 who have a college degree and are either working full time or looking for full-time work. The survey was conducted between August 13 and August 26.

Three quarters of all the women surveyed said SB 8 would discourage them from working in Texas; 73% said they wouldn’t even apply for a job in a state that passed a comparable ban. Among men, 58% said a state’s near-total abortion ban would discourage them from working there and 53% said they would not apply for jobs there. Concerns were especially high among younger workers: 73% of all Gen-Zers, those age 24 and younger, said they would not take a job in a state with a hostile reproductive health environment; 69% of Millennials said the same.

[Texaswitchy]

1. Stay away.

Do not come here.

I am getting my Granddaughters out.

[bluedevil4]

2. until they get

an offer for their dream job but this will get squashed. I can't imagine it going forward much longer, unless of course we fell into the twilight zone.

A few years back I had to go to Dallas and I was overwhelmed at the companies out there. All down the highway every company I could imagine was there

[kcr]

9. If this ban holds up, that will change

No one will want to move to Texas. Anyone with means will be able to move out. It will get extremely difficult to recruit quality workers. The trend of companies moving/setting up their headquarters in Texas will reverse pretty quickly.

[bluedevil4]

10. I would love

for them to come back to my blue state. I hope you are right. Well before this I refused to move to TX for any job. Although it was interesting spending a week out there but definitely not a place for me to live

[Maraya1969]

3. I have zero desire to visit Texas. Less than zero actually because I would purposely

avoid it. And I remember going there as a child with my family and there were cool places but.............now you don't even have to have a license to open carry a gun?


I can't wait to move out of Florida.

[Ilsa]

4. Texas: nothing to see there. Move along. move along. nt

Seriously, I can't imagine why a vacation to texas would be desired by anyone. And I lived there for decades.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Good Texas BBQ and TexMex restaurants in the other 49 states.

[nycbos]

6. I have a goal to go to all 30 MLB stadiums.

To complete that goal will require two stops in Texas. Arlington for the Rangers and Houston for the Astros.


I will not however spend money in Texas as long as this law is in effect.


That being said due to the Covid situation checking off ballparks off my list is probably not in the near future for me anyway.

[leftieNanner]

13. Friends of ours have done this - all the baseball parks

They only have a few more.

We met them in the San Francisco area a few years ago and went to PacBell Park for a Giants game (and an A's game the next day). In the morning we took a tour of the park and it was wonderful! I recommend it highly - and only $17. We got to go in the dugout and on the field briefly.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Same Here!

A couple we know. She & my wife have been friends since freshman year of high school.
They've actually gone back to cities they already checked off, because the team opened a new park!
He's an Amtrak retiree, & the cheap travel perk stayed with him after he retired.
So, going from city to city is quite affordable.

[leftieNanner]

22. I would love to Amtrak across the US!

We took the Acela from Boston to NYC a few years ago, and from Princeton NJ up to Boston with a few stops in between when we were college shopping. Such a civilized way to travel.

Wish it wasn't so expensive.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Agreed

But, with him for free & her at 1/4th price, their trips cost 12.5% of what you or I would spend.
Pretty good deal.
I've traveled Europe, China & India by train. It's so much more laid back than air travel.

[Lovie777]

7. Families with daughters - many are pissed and afraid of what may happen to them . ..

[roamer65]

8. Union General Philip Henry Sheridan.

“If I owned Texas and Hell, I’d rent out Texas and live in Hell.”

[nycbos]

25. That's great

[Bongo Prophet]

11. Ironically, these are the very people who could be crucial in turning Tx blue

It's kind of a catch 22 in that regard.

Federal Voting Rights laws are needed to change voter suppression states, like Texas and others. I believe it was Tx AG Ken Paxton who said Trump would have lost Tx if not for some of the voting restrictions in place. Ballot drop-off and mail-in voting made them very nervous.

I don't blame anyone who decides against moving there, just seeing it from several angles.

[BigmanPigman]

12. For years I've said you couldn't pay me to live there or FL.

My position stands.

[Johnny2X2X]

14. Any of those puritans who sue need to be outed

Make their lives hell!

[monkeyman1]

15. traveling through Texas - don't fuel, only stop to take a dump , don't eat there !

carry food, water, don't mess with texas , sign mean's -avoid at all cost's ! they will freeze again this winter & should not help them . hell, MEXICO don't even want it back! that's what they have T.C. for ! they wanted independence from electrical grid ,give it to them ! I lived in that fucked up state & got the hell out ! need to pull all our military out of that there ! don't go to a dallas cowboys game , avoid all nfl games there ,Nascar , & all sports ! totally make texas irrelevant !! See how fast Abbott get's his ass ran out !

[certainot]

16. students from 5 tex universities can protest the support their own unis gave to republicans

from fakenewsradio.org

TEXAS 16 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1

that's 5 universities that were renting their brands/logos/mascots/athletes to 16 republican xlimbaugh stations that were using the uni sports to attract advertisers to pay to elect republicans and deny global warming and covid, and pass voter suppression, anti choice bullshit, and excuse racism

the schools have no excuse

[MrModerate]

17. But at the same time, Texas' urban (i.e., liberal) areas are growing fast.

Soon, Dems will be in a position to start reversing some of these laws.

Soon enough? Maybe not.

[Mr.Bill]

18. Texas doesn't want college educated workers.

Texas wants people who will work for $7.75 an hour. Texas has the highest percent of their workers working for minimum wage than all the 50 states.

[Lonestarblue]

19. Now f we could get all those Gen Z's and millennials to vote, we might change some red states

to blue. The Texas law will get exported to other red states, so the destruction of healthcare choices will affect a huge portion of the population. And we all know, the religious extremists will then set their sights on outlawing access to birth control. I doubt they will stop there either. Same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights will be on their chopping block.

The ultimate goal for many religious extremists is to have the US as an official Christian nation (they don’t care what the Constitution says) and to have their religious beliefs enshrined as law. I don’t think they have the political clout to turn the US into a Christian nation, but they have enough clout in some states to make it so difficult for certain groups to use their rights that they are in effect nullified, just as Texas as almost completely nullified the right to an abortion.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Wonder if online sales reflect this trend

I've been avoiding TX on eBay for many months, if not years. Had a difficult deal there. Wonder if eBay or Amazon sales originating in TX are down. The data is out there, if someone compiles and releases it.

[IronLionZion]

23. Turn Texas Blue

The GOP there can't even provide electricity in the winter or summer, people are dying of preventable disease, they've taken away women's rights. It sounds like a shithole state. Voters might want a change.