MACKINAC: Internship initiative to plug Detroit's brain drain

The best way to keep talented workers in Detroit is to give them opportunities. Without opportunities, what's the point? The Detroit Regional Chamber plans to launch an internship program that will, if all goes according to plan, funnel 25,000 internships through the Chamber each year.

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Lou Glazer, president and co-founder of Michigan Future Inc., said the program is a common sense approach to stemming the so-called brain drain in the area.

He released a study of 5,300 recent graduates from Michigan’s public universities indicating 54 percent of them currently live outside Michigan. Of those who left, 17 percent went to Chicago.

“For those kids to whom the job matters most, the single most important effort to keep them in Michigan is to offer them an internship that will lead to a job,” he said.

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