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Labor Day

Posted: August 29th, 2008, 5:00am PDT

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This Labor Day, my family and I will join thousands of Michigan citizens who will run and walk across the Mackinac Bridge for the annual Bridge Walk event. We'll be celebrating the importance of fitness for Michigan families, and we'll be thinking about Michigan workers who have helped define our state and lead the labor movement across the country. The Mackinac Bridge is - for me - a symbol of a great Michigan value: the value of hard work.
August MEGAs

Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 5:00am PDT

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If you've seen or heard our ads featuring Jeff Daniels you know Michigan has great business success stories to share. But here's something more - these ads are generating new jobs for Michigan. Just this week, a New York-based data management company, Business Intelligence Associates, chose Michigan for its newest location, committing $8 million that will create nearly 600 jobs here including 251 directly with the company. They
Michigan Nursing Corps

Posted: August 15th, 2008, 5:00am PDT

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There used to be Today, Michigan faces a nursing shortage, a shortage that is expected to grow to some 18,000 nurses by 2015. And yet last year, 44 hundred qualified applicants were turned away from nursing programs in Michigan simply because there wasn't enough room for them. And while thousands wait to enroll, hundreds more enter nursing programs only to encounter delays while they wait for an opportunity to complete their clinical requirements.The Michigan Nursing Corps purpose is to train new nurses and faculty.
K-12 Budget/Small High Schools

Posted: August 8th, 2008, 5:00am PDT

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Education in Michigan took a big step forward this week when I signed into law the new budget for our K-12 schools. Even in a year when we are making cuts in many areas of our state budget we were able to make new investments in education. We know that investment in education pays dividends for everyone because it strengthens our economy and helps create the new jobs we need in Michigan. That's why I am proud are increasing per pupil funding in our schools by up to $112 per student, with the biggest increases going to the schools that have been making do with less for years.
Invest Michigan!

Posted: August 1st, 2008, 5:00am PDT

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Almost six months ago in my State of the State address, I outlined how I will continue to go anywhere and do anything to bring jobs to Michigan. Our economic plan includes both short-term and long-term strategies, many of which we have already implemented thanks to bipartisan cooperation in Lansing. For example, we have put in place the nation's most aggressive film incentive program to bring the movie-making industry and its good-paying jobs to Michigan; I have signed into law record funding for business marketing and tourism promotion; we now have a number of new and greater incentives to attract job-creating businesses ? just to name a few. So this week, we moved forward on another of our plans to grow business and create jobs by announcing Invest Michigan! - a fund that will use $300 million, a large amount of capital but a small portion of our state pension fund, we're going to use this money to invest in businesses that create the jobs we need in Michigan.
No Worker Left Behind Anniversary

Posted: July 25th, 2008, 5:00am PDT

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One year ago, my administration launched the No Worker Left Behind program to give 100,000 workers who have been hit hard by our changing economy the opportunity to get the college degree or job training they need to get new, good-paying jobs. So here's how it works: for three years only, free training is available for workers who have lost their jobs or who are ready to advance beyond low-skill jobs. It's first come, first served. With training and certification through No Worker Left Behind, Michigan workers can get good-paying jobs and fill existing job openings in high-demand fields like nursing, or accounting, or auto mechanics.
MEGAs & DOW

Posted: July 18th, 2008, 6:00am PDT

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Following months of hard work and great efforts by our economic development team, Dow Chemical, a great Michigan company of Midland, and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait announced that they have chosen Michigan to locate the headquarters of their joint venture, K-Dow Petrochemicals, bringing 800 hundred jobs to our state. This is going to be an $11 billion world-wide company. The fact that it will be headquartered here is terrific news for Michigan. Along with Dow's decision to locate its new joint venture here, we were thrilled to announce ? 18 new jobs projects across Michigan that will create over 6,900 new jobs and involve over $231.2 million in new investment. A quick scan of these investments shows these new jobs are in our targeted 21st century hi-tech sectors including: alternative energy, life sciences, homeland security and defense, and advanced automotive manufacturing.
Water Package/Great Lakes Compact Signing

Posted: July 11th, 2008, 6:00am PDT

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It's not every week that we make history in Michigan . . . it's not every day that we do something so monumental that it will be remembered for generations to come. But this was one of those weeks and Wednesday was one of those days. Overlooking the beautiful blue waters of Lake Michigan, I signed into law historic new protections for the Great Lakes that mark a defining moment in our state's history and establishes Michigan as the nation's leader in the scientific management of water.
Save Money Website Launch

Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 6:00am PDT

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For more than five years, we have been focused on doing what we can to help citizens save money. We were the first state in the nation to establish a prescription drug purchasing pool to help us get more for our money and offer citizens the MiRx card so they can get a discount on prescriptions, too.. We've sold state planes, we've reduced the number of vehicles in the state fleet, limited state employee travel, and eliminated bonuses. We've reduced energy consumption in state government, we've ended no-bid contracts ? all to ensure that we are being as frugal with your tax dollars as possible.
Mascoma Announcement

Posted: June 27th, 2008, 8:00am PDT

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Long before the current run-up in gas prices, we declared Michigan's intention to lead the nation in alternative energy production. We know alternative energy is good not only for our environment - it can also reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil. But most importantly for us, alternative energy will result in jobs for Michigan workers and is at the heart of our strategic plan to diversify and grow our state's economy. That's why this week's announcement by the Massachusetts-based Mascoma Corporation that it will build one of the nation's first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants in the Upper Peninsula near Sault Ste. Marie was greeted with such excitement.

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