"Economic gardening" is coming into play across Michigan as this new public policy initiative of boosting job creation by focusing on growing existing businesses is discussed by gubernatorial and other public-office candidates.
It is a concept designed to propel the state toward economic growth and stability. Almost all of Michigan's new jobs from 1993-2007 came from companies with fewer than 100 employees while companies with 500 or more employees lost a significant number of jobs in the same time frame, notes the Edward Lowe Foundation, the 25-year-old entrepreneurial leadership group in Cassopolis.
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