TOM WALSH: State needs to value smarter workforce: "WMU hired EPIC/MRA of Lansing to interview owners or managers of 1,181 so-called new economy companies in Michigan and four competing states, including Ohio and Illinois, about how best to grow new companies and create the jobs of the future" ............."Taxes are important, but in a different part of the company life cycle. An emerging business may not care about taxes because it doesn't have profits yet, but it needs to find capital easily and quickly.
I hope the WMU connection doesn't whitewash what the executives really said in the full report. It's also possible that the executives see the "business atmosphere" as a greater problem in Michigan than a lack of educated grads (we do export hundreds of college grads out of our state) We'll see.....
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