Detailed Instructions: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
Q: Sentence 1: Despite having higher technology wages than any other state in the country, the state remains at a disadvantage in competing with industry and must rely on alternative strategies and incentives to attract and retain skilled workers. Sentence 2: The state is at a disadvantage despite higher wages.
A:
government