6 candidates, 6 plans to curb Mass. exodus

The Boston Globe reports:

The candidates agree that the situation is dire: Thousands of residents -- college graduates, retirees, and families -- leave Massachusetts every year, sapping the state of taxpayers, workers, and wisdom.


But six candidates for governor offer sharply divergent plans -- ranging from hiking the minimum wage by $2 an hour to slashing the personal income tax rate -- to keep more residents in the state and possibly even lure some back.

Their ideas reveal philosophical differences about what makes Massachusetts attractive and about what has changed over the past half-decade to push a quarter-million residents to other states, in one of the biggest population losses by any state in the nation.

Blue state blues.Also known as Europe's disease.