Auchtoon!What Do Young People in Michigan Want?
Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News
March 8, 2015
For years now in Michigan there has been this ongoing pattern of people in charge fretting over younger people leaving the state. There is all the standard lip service for “the youth are our future” and the need to grow and the next generation and blah blah blah. There is a vague sort of “we need to do something” and the natural follow up of “what would that be?” Then it’s “let’s ask young people,” lots of self-congratulations for being so smart to think of such a thing, the youth are asked, their requests sound expensive and politically inconvenient, it’s back to business as usual, and more young people leave the state. Must be they don’t like winters, huh?
