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Tonight I will offer a seven-point plan for reaching our shared destination:
a Michigan that is the economic powerhouse state of the 21st century. I prefer to think of it as seven roads that lead to the goal we all want to reach: a strong economy that creates good jobs. My belief is unshakable: what job-creating businesses seek most today are the same things our citizens most desire - highly-educated children and adults, high-quality affordable health care, a secure a ...
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Business |
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Click here for: Retain Business
Step one: address the
issues that are most threatening to the businesses that made us great, ... |
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Entrepreneurs |
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Click here for: Attract Entrepreneurs
The second
step in growing our economy is to diversify and grab the attention of entrepreneurs. |
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Workforce |
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Develop a 21st Century Workforce
We must pave
a third road to a powerhouse economy because businesses need more than access
to capital. |
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Cool Cities |
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Click here for:
Create Cool Cities
Michigan’s
greatest economic successes have always been tied to the creative and productive
power of our cities. |
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Education |
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Click here for:
Education
Never in history
have businesses so badly wanted precisely what we as parents want - highly-skilled,
value-oriented citizens who... |
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Health |
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Make Health Care More Accessible and Affordable
Few things
affect the quality of our life and the quality of our work more than our good
health. |
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Environment |
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Make Michigan a National Leader in Protecting Its Environment
We will continue
as we did this year, to work in a bipartisan fashion to recapture Michigan’s
national leadership in preserving and protecting our natural resources. |
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