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Jobs Today, Jobs Tomorrow Plan

• A Plan To Transform Michigans Economy
• Create jobs today
• Diversify economy to create jobs tomorrow
• Invest in all our people

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Improving our Business Climate

• Resolved 4 billion in budget shortfalls
• Cut permitting time
• Made permits available online
• Signed 59 business tax cuts
• 600 million tax cut for manufacturers
• Started Buy Michigan First

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Connecting Workers to Todays Jobs

• Created the MI Opportunity Partnership
• Partnership places qualified workers in jobs
  today
• Helps others gain the new skills they need to get
  good paying jobs

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Creating Jobs Today

• 3.8 billion Jobs Today Initiative
• Accelerated 10 years of road and construction
  projects into a three-year period
• Put tens of thousands of Michigan citizens to
  work making Michigan work better

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Preparing All Students For Success

• Goal double the number of college grads in ten
  years
• Invested in early childhood education
• Fought for record funding for K-12 classrooms
• Pushed for, signed into law a rigorous core
  curriculum
• Legislature must pass a 4,000 New Merit
  Scholarship Award
• Citizens must defeat MCRI

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Diversifying Michigans Economy, Creating Jobs
Tomorrow

• 21st Century Jobs Fund
• Largest investment of any state in economic
  diversification
• 2 billion investment in alternative energy, life
  sciences, advanced manufacturing and homeland
  security / defense technology

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Affordable, Universal Health Care

• Michigan First Health Care Plan
• Will make health care more accessible and
  affordable for everyone, everywhere
• Will subsidize care for those who can least
  afford it
• Will make more affordable health insurance
  products available to more citizens
• Will encourage businesses to offer health care
  insurance to their workers

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Plan Beginning to Pay Dividends

• Placed 107,000 workers in new jobs through the MI
  Opportunity Partnership
• Put 40,000 people to work in the next 3
  construction seasons
• Received more than 500 proposals for 1st round of
  21st Century Jobs Fund funding
• Expanded affordable health care and prescription
  drug coverage to more than 292,000 people
• Two investment missions to Japan convinced 22
  companies to create more than 1,000 jobs in
  Michigan

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Plan Beginning to Pay Dividends
Businesses Are Choosing Michigan

• The Big Three have invested over 9 billion in
  Michigan
• Denso is expanding its headquarters in Southfield
• Advanced Photonix moved from California to Ann
  Arbor
• BorgWarner moved its headquarters from Chicago to
  Auburn Hills
• Bosch built a new technical center in Plymouth
  Township
• Kellogg moved its Keebler headquarters from
  Illinois to Michigan, creating more than 650 jobs
  in Battle Creek and Wyoming.
• Whirlpool is consolidating operations in Michigan
  from other states, creating more than 400 jobs in
  Benton Harbor.
• American Axle chose to keep manufacturing jobs in
  Detroit rather than send them to Mexico.

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Plan Beginning to Pay Dividends

• One of Best-Managed States in the nation
  Governing Magazine 2005
• 1 U.S. Automotive Power Center Business
  Facilities Magazine 2005
• 9 most competitive tax burden Laffer Associates
  State Competitive Environment 2006 State
  Rankings
• 8 competitive business climate, 4 in Corporate
  Facilities and expansions Site Selection
  Magazine 2005
• 2 in capital investment Ernst Young 2005
• Michigans business taxes are lower than other 36
  states Council on State Taxation, 2005 rankings

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Plan Beginning to Pay Dividends

• Michigan Gets Googled
• Google To Open Michigan Facility, Hire 1,000
  Dow Jones
• Google brings in new jobs and hope Detroit Free
  Press
• Google likely to unleash our areas imagination
  Ann Arbor News
• Google to Put a Research Center in Michigan New
  York Times
• Google's 'hit' on Michigan thrills state, local
  economy developers Muskegon Chronicle
• Could Google be engine for Mich. Rebound?
  Detroit News

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BUSINESS MARKETING CAMPAIGN

• Market Michigan To Attract Jobs