Small business advocate for the state of Michigan Chris Holman stresses
the importance of small businesses to the state's economic recovery.
Excerpt:
Because companies with fewer than 500 employees already
employ 52 percent of the state's work force, Michigan
needs to work harder to support and encourage that sector.
"I use the quote that nothing heightens a man's
creativity like the thought of getting hung in the
morning,'' Holman said, referring to the
state's growing need to reinvent itself economically.
"The auto industry has been a rude awakening for some of
us, and now we're scrambling to get to tomorrow's
culture,'' he said. "Small business, for the most
part, is taking up the slack.''
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