"The state will pay those new residents up to $10,000 over a period of two years. The grants will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis with $500,000 a

"The state will pay those new residents up to $10,000 over a period of two years. The grants will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis with $500,000 allocated for the program." That will recruit 50 workers, plus perhaps a wife/husband/kids. Total roughly 100 people will move to Vermont, maybe. I think what's more important is that Vermont's Department of Whatever, that created this program, has a purpose for existing. And that department certainly costs more than $500,000.