Article contentLet’s call it what it actually is — an investment. Not just in roads or sewer lines, but in people. An Islander who can get trained, really trained, is a higher-value worker five years from now than they would have been otherwise. That’s not a feeling, that’s a fact about what they can do, what they can earn, what they can build. Every dollar that goes into making someone more capable is a dollar that comes back through them, for a lifetime, in ways a single payment never could.