By not investing in education and placemaking, Michigan has excluded itself from participating in the high-wage, high-growth, knowledge-based part of the economy, according to Lou Glazer, president of Michigan Future Inc.
Manufacturing
Three Rivers functions in much the same way that it has for years. People still work in specific places that everyone knows about. The town’s citizens shop in stores and visit businesses where they are as likely as not to see someone they know. They take part in social and civic activities and groups, some of which have been around for quite a while. Whether we are aware of it or not, life in Three Rivers centers on its factories, which have changed a lot over time, but which have set many of the same economic and social patterns for generations.