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Community Health and the Competition for Jobs – Employers look for healthy employees

December 12, 2012/

More and more companies, in their efforts to contain employee health-care costs, are making a community’s obesity rate the most important factor in their business-location decisions.

By Mark Funkhouser

Full Story: http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/funkhouser/community-health-competition-jobs-business-location.html

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