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CORRECT VERSION
What is Right For Michigan?
At the November 6 Election, we face choices that will impact our future and the future of our state. These choices will be presented to us in the form of six ballot proposals.
BLM supports Proposal 1 which asks us to decide whether to keep the Emergency Manager Law that is helping financially troubled communities regain financial stability.
BLM opposes Proposals 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 which ask us to decide whether to permanently embed in our Constitution specific labor, tax, energy, and bridge-and-tunnel building policies that promote the interests of particular groups at the expense of Michigan's hardworking taxpayers and families by making it more costly to live, work and raise a family here. Read more. . .
Click here to read more about the proposals.
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Business Leaders for Michigan 600 Renaissance Center, Suite 1760, Detroit, MI, 48243-1802
Phone: 313.259.5400
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Michigan's Growth Will Be Stalled By U.S. Economy in Next 18 Months
Business Leaders continue to believe Michigan will be more resilient than U.S. economy overall
Business Leaders for Michigan (BLM) forecasts that Michigan's economy will be stalled by slower U.S. economic growth over the next year or two, but continues to believe the state's economy will be more resilient than the nation overall. While the BLM CEOs believe Michigan cannot avoid being impacted by a deteriorating American economy, one-third still expects to increase their investments and hiring in Michigan. Read more. . . 
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 'Real Whirled' job-training program
Detroit Free Press | October 29, 2012
Long before we ever heard of the Kardashians or "Pawn Stars," MTV launched "The Real World" reality TV series in 1992 -- and inspired a corporate spin-off a few years later in southwestern Michigan, dubbed the "Real Whirled."
Today, the Whirlpool home-appliance maker's Real Whirled training program is about to send its 44th class of promising young sales recruits into the field.
While it closely resembles the MTV series -- not only in name but also by having a mixed-gender group of twentysomethings living together for 10 weeks -- Real Whirled has proven to be much more than a flash-in-the-pan takeoff on the '90s pop-culture hit. Read more. . .
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Domino's to expand, add jobs
Growth prompts pizza delivery company to increase  space at Ann Arbor HQ
The Detroit News | October 22, 2012
Domino's Pizza Inc. said Monday it plans to build on more than two years of sales growth by expanding its Ann Arbor headquarters and adding jobs in 2013. Domino's Pizza - the nation's second largest pizza chain behind Yum Brands Inc.'s Pizza Hut - is expanding its 220,000-square-foot headquarters by 12,000 square feet to accommodate more workers. Read more. . .
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Mary Sue Coleman: Sustainability at University of Michigan must be 'meaningful and measurable' 
AnnArbor.com | October 10, 2012
Four years ago hundreds of college presidents signed a letter promising their institutions would become carbon neutral in a matter of decades.
In September 2011 Mary Sue Coleman issued a list of sustainability goals she wants the University of Michigan to meet by 2025. The movement gained the signature of 674 college presidents and dominated the news circuit for a period of months, but you won't find University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman's signature among those on the guarantee. Read more. . .
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DATA SUPPORTING THE TURNAROUND PLAN |
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Regions That Out Perform Their Population Size:
An interesting new study shows the relative per capita contribution of U.S. metros to the nation on several factors, including the creative class, GDP, patents and population. The study shows that the Lansing region out-performs its population size for producing creative class workers while the Detroit, Ann Arbor and Holland regions out-perform their size generating patents. Sadly, no Michigan regions out-perform our population size generating GDP. Read more. . .
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Top Michigan Business Locations:
Area Development magazine annually ranks the top 150 U.S. business locations and this year Michigan placed two cities in the Top 50 (Holland and Ann Arbor) while Grand Rapids placed #57 and Detroit #136. Read more. . .
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Michigan Business Incentives Not Competitive:
The map below prepared by the Tax Foundation shows how Michigan is now the  only state that has a business tax to not have any job, R&D or investment tax credits. The second map below shows that Michigan's corporate income tax rate of 6% is more than Ohio's, less than the upper Great Lakes states and about the same as the southeast states. The take-away is that the combination of an average tax rate and low incentives puts Michigan at a relative disadvantage for larger business investments. The state's total resources available for incenting business investment total about 5% of what they were three years ago according to a recent MEDC study. Read more. . .
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Site Consultants Rank Top Ten States: 
A national survey of site location consultants ranked the top states for business and they align with where the most new  investments are being located. Most investments continue to occur in the Southeast and Southwest and all these states occupy the Top Ten except for Indiana. Their key attributes are low taxes, [generous] incentives, [fewer] regulations, and predictable, stable political environments. This is typically coupled with an attractive balance of labor cost and availability. Read more. . .
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Save the Dates! November 13 - 15
Accelerate Michigan Competition and
Gala Showcasing the Gems of Detroit
* Guardian Building * Westin Book Cadillac * Orchestra Hall
Learn more at www.acceleratemichigan.org.
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Michigan Turnaround Plan seeks to boost state's competitiveness
Midland Daily News | October 24, 2012
Michigan has to be cost competitive to attract businesses to the state and spur economic growth. Efforts to create a welcoming business environment are working, but more needs to happen, according Doug Rothwell, president and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan.
"We are doing well," Rothwell said. "We think it really is because of good policies that are being adopted here in Michigan and work in communities like yours that will position the economy for growth." Read more. . .
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Business savvy just as useful in politics
Michigan's comeback after 'lost decade' provides  example
Detroit News | October 23, 2012
Whatever foreign policy points President Barack Obama scored in Monday's final debate with Republican Mitt Romney, refiring the slowing momentum of the American economy depends on whether the winner in November can tackle looming obstacles to expansion.
Optimism is not particularly high, notwithstanding the facts that Osama bin Laden is dead, Detroit's own General Motors Co. is alive and the national unemployment rate last month slipped below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years. Read more. . .
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About Us
Business Leaders for Michigan, the state's business roundtable, is dedicated to making Michigan a "Top Ten" state for job, economic and personal income growth. The organization is composed exclusively of the chairpersons, chief executive officers or most senior executives of Michigan's largest companies and universities, which contribute nearly 25% of the state's economy and provide over 320,000 jobs in Michigan, generate over $1 Trillion in annual revenue and serve over 135,000 students.
Find out more at: www.businessleadersformichigan.com
Business Leaders for Michigan
600 Renaissance Center, Suite 1760, Detroit, MI 48243-1802
Phone: 313.259.5400
E-Mail Address: info@businessleadersformichigan.com |
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