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Yohannes wrote:

The question asked is very comprehesnive and targeted. The following are some factors that are relevant in attracting the educated young workers:

1. Vibrant Local Economy - there is an interesting relationship between vibrant local economy and attracting the young. Attracting the young helps create a vibrant economy, but a vibrant economy is also helpful ina ttracting the young. Thus, ability of the local economy to create quality jobs is important to attracting the young educated workers.

2. Education - educational institutions play a great role in attracting the young and educated, and such institutions can play a role in retaining talent locally.

3. Quality of life - ability of local and regional areas in providing quality of life (such as outdoor recreational opportunities, a variety of green infrastructure, urban amenities, etc) is also important. Leveraging such assets targeted at attracting the young can help.

4. Tolerance - openness of the local economy to talent, dynamism, entrepreneurship, immigrants, etc is crucial . The young and educated tend to prefer a more open and dynamic environment with potent potentials.

5. Home affordability - affordable places to live is another consideration. Places with high wage and high amenities are also expensive to live in. But in general, affordable homes tend to help attract population in general.

6. Immigrants - there is a wave of educated immigrants to many cities in the U.S.  A targeted pro-educated immigrants incentive schemes can help attract global talent to local economies.

The above are among numerous strategies to attract young talent to revitalize local economies.  But the list is by no means exhaustive.

I think you're putting too much emphasis on diversity. Highly educated people are not usually the types who care about race. It's usually the lower end of people who give the race of people they live amongst the most importance.

That being said, Michigan already has a VERY diverse population in most all of it's major cities and it's done absolutely nothing to help the economic situation. Perhaps less attention should be paid to diversity and more attention be paid to getting the killers and thieves off the streets so that good people can feel safe riding the bus to and from work. Or going to class without the feeling they may not make it back home alive.