“The unemployment rate in Michigan, already close to 10 percent, will undoubtedly rise further. State and federal officials will have to increase the number of retraining programs, and develop a postindustrial policy that ensures there is something for the graduates to do. That will take patience and money, two commodities in short supply.”
Pittsburgh Thrives After Casting Steel Aside - NYTimes.com (via incalas)
The beauty of this predicament is that the state is a sitting duck for improvement, for new industry, for hope—although right now it would be fair to say that the family is still in grief over the deceased. I’d love to learn more about how Pittsburgh figured out how to mobilize hearts and minds and transition itself out of its old self and into the future. How do you do that on a scale of 10 million people across an entire state?
