Oct 29, 2026 · 24 min · 12 segments
Kevin Chu, Executive Director of the Vermont Futures Project, joins Kurt & Anthony to discuss their latest survey of Vermont Business.
Kevin, we're basically out of time, but just real quick.
Do you think part of Vermont's problem was that we have become so dependent on money coming from above from the federal government that we think we can just keep relying on that gravy train to solve all of our problems?
I've had conversations with folks about this where it was a predictable dynamic when Senator Leahy left office that we would eventually need to become a little bit less dependent because he just did so many amazing things for the state of Vermont and was able to bring a lot of federal money here.
We may have experienced an acceleration of the need to become a little bit more self-reliant and independent.
Kevin, we're basically out of time, but just real quick.
Do you think part of Vermont's problem was that we have become so dependent on money coming from above from the federal government that we think we can just keep relying on that gravy train to solve all of our problems?
I've had conversations with folks about this where it was a predictable dynamic when Senator Leahy left office that we would eventually need to become a little bit less dependent because he just did so many amazing things for the state of Vermont and was able to bring a lot of federal money here.
We may have experienced an acceleration of the need to become a little bit more self-reliant and independent.
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