In Michigan, Decade Of Job Loss Is Finally Coming To End

State Adds More Jobs For First Time In 11 Years

Like a patient surviving a medical emergency, Michigan has the chance to learn some important lessons as it emerges from 10 straight years of job losses.

And like a patient learning to do push-ups and knee bends, Michigan must learn to become better educated and entrepreneurial in its business model as it recovers from this lost decade.

The state will add jobs in 2011 for the first time since 2000. The prolonged period of job losses tells many experts that even the state's core manufacturing industries require a more educated work force -- something the state may have trouble delivering.

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