Faith Langevin and Matt Costanza uprooted their lives in Atlanta for Tulsa, OK, drawn by a $10,000 grant for remote workers. The city’s modest investment to attract more skilled professionals is paying off—each transplant has helped fuel more local jobs.
Langevin and Costanza are among more than 3,500 migrants from across the U.S. who have made Tulsa their home since the recruitment program Tulsa Remote first launched in the fall of 2018.
The economic impact from the relatively low-volume initiative has been impressive, generating thousands of new job opportunities and delivering a fourfold return on the program’s operating costs, according to experts…