While the gap between the middle class and wealthy widens, Massachusetts must focus on keeping good paying jobs accessible for middle class residents, experts said Wednesday at the Boston Globe Summit.

“If you look at our economy, we’ve done very well with very high income jobs, but there are so many companies who need people who may not have college degrees, but are still really talented and have great upside,” said Yvonne Hao, a former state secretary of economic development for the Healey administration. “A lot of those middle-class jobs went to other states because we weren’t intentional about keeping them here.”

Hao. now a general partner at Flagship Pioneering, a life science enterprise, joined Turahn Dorsey, chief executive of the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation and Christian E

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