Growing Michigan with college grads

You need seeds to grow a garden and you need grads to grow a state. Michigan can only go as far as its college grad retention will take it.Excerpt:Because employment growth and high wages are increasingly knowledge-based, primarily in five broad sectors of the economy: information, finance and insurance, professional and technical services, health care and education. These industries, all of which have at least 30 percent of their employees with four-year degrees, are concentrating in the regions of the country with the greatest concentrations of college educated adults. Unfortunately Michigan ranks 34th in college attainment. In a flattening world where work can increasingly be done any place by anybody, the places with the greatest concentrations of talent win. Read the entire article here.

You need seeds to grow a garden and you need grads to grow a state. Michigan can only go as far as its college grad retention will take it.

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Because employment growth and high wages are increasingly knowledge-based, primarily in five broad sectors of the economy: information, finance and insurance, professional and technical services, health care and education. These industries, all of which have at least 30 percent of their employees with four-year degrees, are concentrating in the regions of the country with the greatest concentrations of college educated adults.

Unfortunately Michigan ranks 34th in college attainment. In a flattening world where work can increasingly be done any place by anybody, the places with the greatest concentrations of talent win.

Read the entire article here.

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