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Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
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Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Jobs Today, Jobs Tomorrow Plan
A Plan To Transform Michigan’s Economy:
Create jobs today Diversify economy to create jobs tomorrow Invest in all our people
Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Improving our Business Climate
Resolved $4 billion in budget shortfalls Cut permitting time Made permits available online Signed 59 business tax cuts
$600 million tax cut for manufacturers Started “Buy Michigan First”
Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Connecting Workers to Today’s Jobs
Created the MI Opportunity Partnership
Partnership places qualified workers in jobs today
Helps others gain the new skills they need to get good paying jobs
Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Creating Jobs Today
$3.8 billion Jobs Today Initiative
Accelerated 10 years of road and construction projects into a three-year period
Put tens of thousands of Michigan citizens to work making Michigan work better
Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Preparing All Students For Success
Goal: double the number of college grads in ten years
Invested in early childhood education
Fought for record funding for K-12 classrooms
Pushed for, signed into law a rigorous core curriculum
Legislature must pass a $4,000 New Merit Scholarship Award
Citizens must defeat MCRI
Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Diversifying Michigan’s Economy, Creating Jobs Tomorrow
21st Century Jobs Fund:
Largest investment of any state in economic diversification
$2 billion investment in alternative energy, life sciences, advanced manufacturing and homeland security / defense technology
Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Affordable, Universal Health Care
Michigan First Health Care Plan
Will make health care more accessible and affordable for everyone, everywhere
Will subsidize care for those who can least afford it
Will make more affordable health insurance products available to more citizens
Will encourage businesses to offer health care insurance to their workers
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Plan Beginning to Pay Dividends
Placed 107,000 workers in new jobs through the MI Opportunity Partnership
Put 40,000 people to work in the next 3 construction seasons
Received more than 500 proposals for 1st round of 21st Century Jobs Fund funding
Expanded affordable health care and prescription drug coverage to more than 292,000 people
Two investment missions to Japan – convinced 22 companies to create more than 1,000 jobs in Michigan
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Plan Beginning to Pay Dividends
The Big Three have invested over $9 billion in Michigan Denso is expanding its headquarters in Southfield Advanced Photonix moved from California to Ann Arbor BorgWarner moved its headquarters from Chicago to Auburn Hills Bosch built a new technical center in Plymouth Township Kellogg moved its Keebler headquarters from Illinois to Michigan,
creating more than 650 jobs in Battle Creek and Wyoming. Whirlpool is consolidating operations in Michigan from other states,
creating more than 400 jobs in Benton Harbor. American Axle chose to keep manufacturing jobs in Detroit rather than
send them to Mexico.
Businesses Are Choosing Michigan:
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Plan Beginning to Pay Dividends
“One of Best-Managed States” in the nation [Governing Magazine 2005]
#1 U.S. Automotive Power Center [Business Facilities Magazine 2005]
#9 most competitive tax burden [Laffer Associates State Competitive Environment 2006 State Rankings]
#8 competitive business climate, #4 in Corporate Facilities and expansions [Site Selection Magazine 2005]
#2 in capital investment [Ernst & Young 2005] Michigan’s business taxes are lower than other 36 states
[Council on State Taxation, 2005 rankings]
Plan To Transform Our Economy, Invest In All Our People
Plan Beginning to Pay Dividends Michigan Gets Googled: Google To Open Michigan Facility, Hire 1,000 [Dow Jones]
Google brings in new jobs and hope [Detroit Free Press] Google likely to unleash our area’s imagination [Ann Arbor News]
Google to Put a Research Center in Michigan [New York Times]
Google's 'hit' on Michigan thrills state, local economy developers [Muskegon Chronicle]
Could Google be engine for Mich. Rebound? [Detroit News]
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BUSINESS MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Market Michigan To Attract Jobs