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Tag: crops

Outbound moves record shattering and worse than feared

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Thu Apr 02, 2009 at 07:38:53 AM EST
Tags: migration, Detroit, Granholm, Cherry, Granholm-Cherry, FAIL, farming, crops, fire, wind turbine, business, jobs (all tags)

According to the Detroit News, we're setting records here in Michigan. And not just setting records, but doing things that are so unique and so rare, there is literally no comparative example anywhere in American history.

In any other state, that sort of paragraph could either be really great news or a portent of something down right rotten. In a state governed by the Granholm - Cherry administration for the better part of a decade we tend to lose that first option pretty quickly. Sure enough...

Michigan's population is dwindling, and fast. We knew that. We learn each year that we lead the nation in outbound moves. United Van Lines doesn't mean to punch us in the gut, they're just reporting their own numbers, but it happens again and again.

Since 2001, migration has cost Michigan 465,000 people, the equivalent of the combined populations of Grand Rapids, Warren and Sterling Heights -- the state's second-, third- and fourth-largest cities.
Population loss of that magnitude is so rare that its impact has never been studied. But The News' analysis discovered some sobering trends:
Those leaving Michigan are the people the state most needs to keep -- young and college-educated. The state suffered a net loss to migration of 18,000 adults with a bachelor's degree or higher in 2007 alone -- the equivalent of half the staff of the University of Michigan crossing the state line.

In other words, those jobs of tomorrow and that whole diversification of the economy that the administration has been trying to engineer via tax increases, increased regulation and more overseas family vacations than you can shake a stick at just plain hasn't materialized. To the contrary... the folks who aren't working are multiplying and staying put while folks who already HAVE jobs are beating feet and making a mad dash for the Indiana border (I refuse to entertain the notion any of them exit via Ohio).

Read on...

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