Attracting skilled immigrants is good for the economy, right?
Gov. Snyder has proposed a plan to attract 50,000 highly skilled immigrants to the state. It's a plan that would require them to live and work in Detroit as a way to help boost the city’s economy, but some say we’re not doing enough for immigrants already here. On today's program: What can our state do to keep the immigrants who are here while attracting new immigrants?
Then, we all take shortcuts right? Just think about your walk to work, or to the store. Do you cut through a parking lot, or cut across an empty field? Well, there is so much vacant land in Detroit that is exactly what people are doing. So much so, that you can see their tracks from Google Earth. Later in the hour we’ll explore Detroit’s urban footpaths.
But first we talk about how the defense spending cuts will affect Michigan.
