Posted on 04/08/2009 1:25:38 PM PDT by mombyprofession
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is planning to host a public forum next week to discuss the how to stem the tide that leads nearly half of the Michigan’s college students to seek professional opportunities outside the state within a year of graduating.
Granholm wants to reverse that trend and minimize the effects of Michigan’s brain drain, something The Detroit News recently documented in a two-day series. The number of Michigan State University graduates leaving the state increased from 24 percent in 2001 to 49 percent, according to a school study. Fifty-three percent of graduates of the University of Michigan who are originally from the Wolverine State left Michigan in 2008.
The problem is not new. The governor has tried to promote Michigan as an attractive place for recent college graduates and young professions through her “Cool Cities” initiative, which kicked off in 2003. Despite millions in investment, the initiative has been widely seen as not achieving its goals.
The free forum will be held at 9:30 a.m. April 16 at Fairlane Center North Quad E, 1900 Hubbard Drive, on the University of Michigan’s Dearborn campus.
That means that over half are staying. And not worth keeping...............
Do things that help the prosperity in Michigan, and the brains will stick around.
One thing that has to be permitted to die a natural death is the UAW.
She needs to increase income taxes on business to fund greater central planning of the industrial economy.
Well Gee I’d think the first things would be more jobs and lower taxes.
They need a forum to tell them what to do?
Here’s a start guys: CUT TAXES — and make it regressive: the higher the bracket the lower the tax level.
You will keep them drainin’ brains, trust me.
Oh, and replace the Lions with a real NFL team.
“They need a forum to tell them what to do?”
What they’re really doing with this forum crap is trying to figure out a way to blame this on conservatives.
ROF LOL
>>What they’re really doing with this forum crap is trying to figure out a way to blame this on conservatives.
They don’t need a forum to do that. Just repeat the last TOTUS speech word for word and, voila!, blame game solidly in place!
Embracing global warming might help. Those Michigan winters are brutal.
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I left active duty (Army) in 1992, and got my MBA from Michigan State (GO GREEN!!) in 1994.
I really, really wanted to stay in Michigan because it is, truly, “a sportsman’s paradise”.
I couldn’t find a job and had to take one in Indiana, where I reside today.
Returning home is a fairly tale, for me.
I doubt it will ever happen.
The way this state is being run and the problems we’re having, a graduate would be a fool to stay. I would advise them to spend 6-8 weeks looking for employment here, then move on.
They are all being “blown away” apparently..... thank gawd the idiots that vote in this beautiful state decided to “give her more time”.
Do the exact opposite of anything Grandtheft suggests.
Where in Indiana?
I was born and raised in Michigan. Went back to finish my first degree then went back in the Air Force.
I have only returned a few times since then to visit family.
I was going to retire up in the northern woods but with the taxes and other bad things happening there I will just stay here in Virginia.
At one time I wanted to move back but Michigan banked it’s entire living on the auto industry and that is not my forte. I guess I’ll just have to visit from time to time and remember when it was a decent state back in my younger days.
I was stationed in North Dakota for over eight years.
That place makes Michigan a cake walk.
Indianapolis
Response: No need for an expensive forum one simple glance at those in office tells one all one needs to know. However, a "forum" does provide an opportumity for politicians to have $1000/ounce caviar; $250 per bottle wine; $150 steaks etc. etc.
Yeah, but if the climate in Michigan was more temperate, then it would be easier for those college grads to work at jobs they’re prepared for, like ditch-digging or holding the “SLOW” sign on a state highway crew, and it’d be much more pleasant to live under a bridge because taxes take too much of your money and you can’t afford a place to live.
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