Business ClimateMichigan Business News: Press releases from the MEDC on recent announcements, grants and business expansions. Testimonials from Michigan Businesses: We've pulled together some of our latest TV commercials. Watch what executives at leading compaines have to say about their Michigan location. Our economy is more diverse than ever before – A study commissioned by the Michigan Department of Treasury in 2000 concluded that in 1970 Michigan was only 80 percent as diverse as the average state but had grown in 1999 to a diversity index of 94 percent. Over 90 percent of the new jobs created in the last decade in Michigan were in construction, health care, business services, engineering and research and development and information technology. |