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Saturday, October 11, 2003

Michigan works to attract fresh talent

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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- New York has it. So do Boston, San Francisco and Austin, Texas -- the kind of magnetism that attracts creative young adults who make a region's economy hum.

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, a Democrat, is pushing a "Cool Cities" initiative to make people want to live, work and shop in Michigan's cities.

"Cool cities mean hot jobs," Michigan's 43-year-old freshman governor said at the Digital Detroit conference on Wednesday.

She launched the project last month, after a Census Bureau report that listed metropolitan Detroit as first in the nation between 2000 and 2002 in the flight of young adults.

The report said 33,371 people ages 25-34 -- one of every 20 in that group -- moved away in those two years.

"When young people leave Michigan, they take their talent, entrepreneurial spirit and job skills with them," Mrs. Granholm said. "How is it that we can make a magnet for that kind of work force?"

The answer, Mrs. Granholm said, is to create cool cities around the state.

Cool cities are places where people with talent and imagination can find work, along with rich cultural, social and recreational opportunities -- ingredients for a quality lifestyle, the governor said.

In other words, places like Austin, Texas.

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