I am here listening to some economists from UofM at the Revenue Estimating Conference, where we will get the revenue figures that the Governor will use to draft her 2010-11 budget. This first presentation has some very telling statistics. The slide that jumped out the most was private employment in low education versus high education in Michigan vs the US as a whole. From 2001-08 total high education jobs dropped .5 percent in MI and grew 7.8 percent on avg in the US. For total low education the US grew 1.4 percent in the US but dropped 14.2 percent in Michigan. Its a great graphic that clearly shows how Michigan needs to start investing in the types of things and places that will attract an educated workforce because we are seriously lagging. More evidence our 21c3 assets and Prosperity Agenda are what we need to turn the economy around.

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