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“Michigan Must Build It So They Come”
"It's the place, stupid!" This is a headline from the League's book "The Economics of Place," which focuses on the importance of ‘quality of place’ to the economic outlook for a city and its people.
Detroit Free Press columnist Ron Dzwonkowski writes that in the four decades he has been covering public policy debates in Michigan, "much of the expelled hot air has been about the best use of taxes and regulations, more or less, to create a climate that will attract investment capital -- money that creates jobs. How different Michigan would look today if that debate had been about the best way to attract "human capital" -- or to invest in it, so Michigan today had a well-educated 21st-Century work force instead of one that struggles with basic literacy." Read more of the column here.
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