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States Turn to Colleges to Help Reinvent Economies and Retrain Workers

Deserted factories and dying Midwestern industrial towns have
become well-worn symbols of the nation’s economic woes. Indeed,
as economies that once thrived on manufacturing continued to
deteriorate, revenues tumbled in many Midwestern states in 2009.
Unemployment rates climbed well into double-digit percentages in
Detroit, the Motor City, and smaller towns like Elkhart, Ind., the
self-proclaimed RV Capital of the World. Two of the Big Three
automakers filed for bankruptcy protection and sought federal aid
to survive.

By Sara Hebel

Full Story: http://mus.edu/news/StatesTurnToCollegees.pdf

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