November 18, 2005
November 18, 2005
Governor Highlights Efforts to Create and Retain Jobs Across the State
LANSING – In her weekly radio address, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today announced a new wave of job creation in Michigan, highlighting her administration’s efforts to attract new businesses, retain existing jobs, and create new jobs across Michigan.
“By convincing these businesses to stay and grow in Michigan, and by luring new businesses to Michigan, we’re preserving jobs and creating jobs that pay the bills, put food on the table, and support so many families and children across our state,” Granholm said.
Granholm announced yesterday that her administration is accelerating over $600 million in needed road and infrastructure building projects. The projects are part of her Jobs Today Initiative and will put 11,000 people to work.
Nine companies recently announced they will invest almost half a billion dollars in Michigan’s economy, creating and retaining more than 1,500 jobs. These companies include Cobra Sport Inc. which is relocating its motorcycle manufacturing plant from Ohio to Hillsdale, Michigan, and Hemlock Semiconductors which is expanding its Saginaw County facility over a competing site in Kentucky.
During jobs missions to Germany one year ago and to Japan this past summer, Granholm helped convince more than a dozen overseas companies to create some 2,000 jobs across the state.
The Governor once again urged the Legislature to pass a bipartisan package to create jobs now so that announcements like those made this week can continue.
“I have continued to push, to prod, to insist the Legislature pass a bipartisan job creation package, a package which I outlined last February,” Granholm said in her address. “My administration is committed to going anywhere, anytime to bring jobs and investment home to Michigan.”
The Governor’s weekly radio address is released each Friday at 10:00 a.m. and may be heard on broadcast stations across that state through an affiliation with the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. The address will also be available on the Governor’s Website on Mondays as a podcast for general distribution to personal MP3 players and home computers.
Broadcasters Note: Governor Granholm’s radio address can be accessed through Sunday evening exclusively through the Members Only page of the Michigan Association of Broadcasters website.
Publishers Note: The text of today’s address is attached.
