Small businesses integral to state's economic recovery

Small business advocate for the state of Michigan Chris Holman stresses the importance of small businesses to the state's economic recovery.

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Because companies with fewer than 500 employees already employ 52 percent of the state's work force, Michigan needs to work harder to support and encourage that sector.

"I use the quote that nothing heightens a man's creativity like the thought of getting hung in the morning,'' Holman said, referring to the state's growing need to reinvent itself economically. 

"The auto industry has been a rude awakening for some of us, and now we're scrambling to get to tomorrow's culture,'' he said. "Small business, for the most part, is taking up the slack.''

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