Seven steps?! Just seven? Well, let's get to work. The
Christian Science Monitor breaks it down to seven steps to help fix the state.
Excerpt:
"A lot of the pieces are there for Michigan to do very well," says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., who has studied Michigan’s tax incentive programs. "It has fantastic universities and not unreasonable high school graduation rates. That’s easier to sustain than to build."
It also has a trained manufacturing workforce (although that’s shrinking with every moving van headed across state lines). Plus, it’s a border state with a good location and a lot of transportation assets. With its hundreds of miles of lakeshore, mineral deposits, and resource-rich Upper Peninsula, the state is hardly a wasteland.
"Used properly, Michigan is a Fort Knox of natural resources," says Mr. LaFaive.
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