Category: Talent

Questions for 2010

In my last post I recommended that we ask 2010 candidates “what state would Michigan look like if your economic development strategies worked?” The other

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Does Economic Development Work?

Interesting article by Rick Haglund in Dome Magazine. Its a brief history of the state’s economic development efforts from Milliken to Granholm. What struck me

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Immigration and Economic Growth

Interesting study from the Fiscal Policy Institute on the role of immigrants in growing regional economies. They looked at the nation’s twenty five largest metropolitan

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Toyota

Interesting article by Nathan Bomey in annarbor.com. Its about Toyota apparently considering moving some of their knowledge jobs from California, with Ann Arbor being one

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Why Young Talent?

There are many who question why it is that folks like us place such a high priority on retaining and attracting recent college graduates. Why

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State Budget Part II

I had a chance a few weeks ago to lay out for the State Board of Education how I would deal with the state’s long

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