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Education key to jobs, Microsoft CEO says

A well-educated workforce, not tax breaks, is the key to luring high tech business to a state, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told state policy makers Wednesday.

Gates’ remarks to a standing-room-only audience at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures coincided with the release of an NCSL report showing that state fiscal conditions are the brighest they’ve been in at least five years.

"The industries that I think about most … are far more sensitive to the quality of talent in the area than they are to tax policies," Gates said when asked how states can attract more jobs.

The world’s best-known computer whiz said the growth engines of the future will be information technology and biomedical firms.

By Kathleen Hunter, Stateline.org Staff Writer

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