You need seeds to grow a garden and you need grads to grow a state. Michigan can only go as far as its college grad retention will take it.
Excerpt:
Because employment growth and high wages are increasingly
knowledge-based, primarily in five broad sectors of the economy:
information, finance and insurance, professional and technical
services, health care and education. These industries, all of which
have at least 30 percent of their employees with four-year degrees, are
concentrating in the regions of the country with the greatest
concentrations of college educated adults.
Unfortunately
Michigan ranks 34th in college attainment. In a flattening world where
work can increasingly be done any place by anybody, the places with the
greatest concentrations of talent win.
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