Michigan Family Impact Seminar #11
Preparing Michigan’s Communities and Families for the New Economy
May 1, 2006
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Featured Speakers
James Oehmke, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
Michigan’s Economy, Michigan’s Families: Overcoming the 2001 Recession
Toby Herr, Founder and Executive Director, Project Match
A Human Development Approach to Welfare Reform Phase II: Giving Families Choice
Rex LaMore, State Director, Michigan State University’s Community Economic Development Program
Michigan’s Place in the Knowledge Economy
Additional Chapters/Materials
Michigan’s Approach to Welfare to Work, by Gianelle E. Rivera, Sean Sullivan, and Rosalind Kirk
What Michigan is Doing to Promote Knowledge Economy Jobs: The 21st Century Jobs Fund, by Sean Sullivan and Laura Bates
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