Michigan launches nationwide talent recruitment effort to address stagnant Population

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You can put lipstick, a dress and a wig on a pig. You can also showcase this pig for all the world to see.

But at the end of the day, it's still a pig.

People move to places for economic opportunity, where their livelihoods aren't heavily dependent upon 2.5 companies experiencing a secular decline in a single industry that are notorious for hiring to fire every few years. People move to states with healthy/vibrant major cities. People move to places where the the total taxes/insurance paid is proprtional to the value gained [[meaning in return, they get good roads, functioning rapid transit systems, sewerage systems that don't shut down & lead to 500 years floods every time there's a thunderstorm, urban/industrial blight that isn't overbearing, etc.).

Until Michigan addresses this stuff, it will continue to bleed peoppe and no amount of money wasted on fultile marketing efforts will make a difference. There's literally nothing exceptional Michigan offers that would entice the young talent it seeks to move/stay in the state.

https://apnews.com/article/whitmer-p...7df2efafb668bf

LANSING, Mich. [[AP) — Michigan is launching a $20 million nationwide marketing initiative aimed at boosting the state’s decades-long sluggish population growth by attracting and retaining young talent.

The campaign, which was unveiled Tuesday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, will include television, radio and online advertisements in 11 states. It will be the largest state-led talent attraction effort in the U.S., according to the state’s economic development board.

Whitmer and other state leaders have looked for ways to grow the population after the 2020 census revealed a population increase of only 1.7% over the previous decade. Michigan, the 10th most populous state in the nation, had the 49th slowest rate of population growth since 2000. Only West Virginia’s was slower.