A Governor`s Story, by Jennifer Granholm: on Jobs

Jennifer Granholm: Jobs Race to the Top: compete for regional job creation

Obama's educational Race to the Top was the most dramatically successful component of the Recovery Act. Using a modest amount of money, $4.5 billion, it stoked unprecedented competition among states to develop creative ideas for education reform. I urged that we borrow the Race to the Top concept to fuel regional job creation. The goal: To create 3 million jobs in 3 years. Here's how it could work:

Fund the program by repurposing a percentage of the money the US currently spends on economic development. To have real impact, the Jobs Race to the Top should be comparable in size and scope to its educational counterpart.
Launch with a competition focused on a critical national need with job-creating potential--for example, clean energy technology.
Incentivize and reward the most effective locally formed public-private partnerships, involving businesses, universities, and foundations. Define "effectiveness" in terms of numbers of lasting jobs created quickly.

Source: A Governor's Story, by Jennifer Granholm, p. 243 Oct 1, 2005

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