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REPORTS

July 2008
Young Talent in the Great Lakes: How Michigan is Faring
This report is part of the Michigan Future, Inc. New Agenda for a New Michigan project. Its focus is on identifying a path to better position Michigan to succeed in the flattening world economy of the future, a path that will return Michigan to high prosperity, measured by per capita income consistently above the national average in both national economic expansions and contractions.

Our basic conclusion: What most distinguishes successful areas from Michigan is their concentrations of talent, where talent is defined as a combination of knowledge, creativity and entrepreneurship. Quite simply, in a flattening world, the places with the greatest concentrations of talent win! States and regions without concentrations of talent will have great difficulty retaining or attracting knowledge-based enterprises, and they are not likely to be the places where new knowledge-based enterprises are created.
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February 2008
Michigan's Transition to a
Knowledge-Based Economy:
First Annual Progress Report
This is Michigan Future's first annual report on Michigan's transition to a knowledge-ased economy. The progress we make in this transition will, in large part, determine whether once again Michigan enjoys high prosperity.

Obviously the Michigan economy has been dreadful this decade. An unprecedented seven consecutive years of job losses. At the bottom of the national rankings in both employment and per capita income. This is largely because the engine that still drives the Michigan economy is the troubled domestic auto industry.
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A New Agenda for a New Michigan
Michigan’s economy is reeling from an unprecedented six consecutive years of declining employment—maybe most worrisome, the past three years during a national economic expansion. There is widespread concern that what comes next will not be a good as what has been lost. (click here for the full report)

 A New Path to Prosperity?: Manufacturing and Knowledge-Based Industries As Drivers of Economic Growth

 Michigan Workers in the Boom Years:  Employment and Emplyoment Earnings 1991-2000 
  (Table I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI)

 Revitalizing Michigan's Central Cities: A Vision and Framework for Action

 Connecting the Urban Poor to Work: A Framework and Strategy for Action

 Pathway to Good Paying Careers: How Young Adults Obtain Good-Paying Jobs Without Four-Year Degrees