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Reinventing work in a sustainable Detroit

Perhaps no city in America has been hit as hard, or for as long, as Detroit.
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Turning waste into jobs

The saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” may be cliché, but the operators of a small business incubator hope this mantra will help them turn spent grain into money and fish waste into jobs.
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As a team, investment plus community college means jobs

As the Great Lakes region continues to face high rates of unemployment, many manufacturing workers find themselves laid off and lacking credentials to find new work. State-funded agencies are teaming up with community colleges and private businesses to help get workers back into jobs.
Front and Center

Foodies may fuel Great Lakes economy

Until recently nobody expected farms to create a lot of new jobs, but nationwide the food business is experiencing something like a renaissance.
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Rustbelt city wants immigrants, skilled or not

Dayton’s population has been shrinking since the 1960s. Most of the area’s factory jobs are long gone. To save the city, Schultz has embraced a new idea: Help immigrants and refugees lay roots in Dayton.
Front and Center

Looking for a truly bearish economy? We've found it.

With the demise of forestry, shipping and agriculture along the southern shore of Lake Superior over the past century, a once booming region is in decline. As the people have moved out, the biggest carnivore west of the Rockies, the American black bear, has moved back in.

Listeners seek advice from jobs experts

This week Eight Forty-Eight heard about the real-life challenges facing workers in the Great Lakes region as part of the Front and Center series. Friday was listeners' chance to share how they were doing in this economy.

Reinventing work in a sustainable Detroit

Perhaps no city in America has been hit as hard, or for as long, as Detroit.

Canada puts immigration at the center of its economic policy

Canada has been focused on attracting skilled immigrants for decades as a central part of its economic development strategy. Brian Mann has been on the road all week looking at work force development strategies among our neighbors to the north for Front and Center.

Detroit international bridge project going nowhere

The busiest international crossing in the United States is in Detroit. Each year more than $200 billion worth of trade crosses the border there. Those trucks drive across the Ambassador Bridge--which is privately owned. The bridge is old and congested.

Canada boosts recession-era prosperity with government jobs, new borrowing

This week, the Front and Center series looked at how workers in the Great Lakes region have been weathering the recession. Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio has been traveling in Ontario, comparing the lot of Canadians and Americans.

Training Chicago's workforce

Reporter Jocelyn Frank shared Deidre Hosek's story as an example of how public-private partnerships have helped people find work in Michigan but Eight Forty-Eight asked, what about Chicago?

Investment + community college = jobs

As the Great Lakes region continues to face high rates of unemployment, many manufacturing workers find themselves laid off and lacking credentials to find new work. State-funded agencies are teaming up with community colleges and private businesses to help get workers back into jobs.

Canadian workers comforted by social safety net

All week, Front and Center looked at the real-life challenges facing workers in the Great Lakes region.As part of that conversation, North Country Public Radio’s Brian Mann has been on the road talking to people on the Canadian side of the border.

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