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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 10 Questions for Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions for Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Uu3iczQL.m3u8) (6:35)  _Published 2009-10-22. 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" How will we educating the unemployed help the employment situation if there are no jobs for them to fill ?" >> What we have done is we've restructured our whole workforce training effort all through the community colleges. We will pay for two years of tuition, $ 2, 000 per year for any unemployed or underemployed worker who agrees to be retrained in an area of need. We won't pay for you to be retrained and getting a degree in French or Political Science. Those are my degree so I can say that safely. But we will pay for you to get a degree in, you know, in something that is of need like Nursing. So while the unemployment rate is high, this is the time for people to go back and retool their skills. >> Will Detroit ever really recovered in your honest opinion? >> Absolutely, absolutely. >> Okay. >> Not a sure answer. >> Come on down. No, I mean, we have great bones. Do we not as a city and as a state? We have phenomenal resource. We got terrific universities. We got a great quality of life. We have more engineers in this region than all of the other states plus Canada and Mexico combined. We are in a tough period and we're in a tough period because we have an auto- depression and auto- crisis and layered upon that a financial crisis so we are hit harder than any other state in the country because for a hundred years, we've been the auto capital of the world and so we know that we've got it diversified and that's part of the culture change that we've got to undergo in Detroit and in Michigan. >> That's interesting. I guess, I hadn't thought about it that Michigan and Detroit in particular never really wasn't incubated for entrepreneurial and that is because there was a kind of corporate [ unk ]. >> But we had some big entrepreneurs like Henry Ford. >> Right. >> You know, great entrepreneurs but people came to rely upon them and people moved here because they could work for them $ 5 a day recall a great, you know assembly line. But, you know, time have changed and that's-- if there's one message from this that I think that we would all agree is that we cannot do things today the way we have done them in the past. >> Another Detroit question. I've heard it said that Detroit needs to reduce its geographical size that it cannot continue to pay for services for such a wide area because the residents are so spread out. Wouldn't it be possible to take Detroit's vacant properties by eminent domain and just-- and then to sell them by auction to people who wanna rebuild the city? >> You don't even need to take them by eminent domain. You can take them at a foreclosure action for a very cheap. In fact, we've created a Michigan Land Bank, which is working with the Detroit Land Bank to assemble properties so that we cannot just auction them but make the available for job providers. Detroit was built as a city for two million and it's gotten less than a million people now so we've got a lot of vacant space. And so what do you do with that vacant space if you're the Mayor? What do you do to make us the city resized itself when the infrastructure is too expensive for the population that you have? And so there's been an awful lot of effort and this is-- I'm a big booster of this of greening Detroit, of making those properties green spaces or doing urban farming. I wanna give you a quick example of that. >> Right, yeah. >> I mean that urban farming is a big deal. We created something in partnership with local community associations called Food Movers, where we are putting fresh food that people have grown locally on a truck and with a, kind of like an ice cream truck with music and taken them into the neighborhood. The reason why that's important 'cause in many urban communities including Detroit, there's not a lot of fresh food. There's not a lot of produce. And so if you can take some of that and give people the skills to be able to farm on these plots of land given to them for a buck, have them work with the Michigan State University Extension, which is a land- based college that really focus on agriculture, giving people the training to do that and then have that be for them or if they wanna transform it into, you know, small farmers markets, I'm a big believer in that and I think Mayor Bing is also. >> From Frida Sal from Philadelphia. Another industrial city that transform itself-- >> Yes. >> You have put great effort to stimulate the Michigan economy but focusing on green jobs and alternative energy. Many firms, however, are looking for environmental scientists and engineers while most of Michigan workers have only auto- manufacturing experience. Can we really get people employed in those industries when there is such a great divide? >> Right. There are many workers in Michigan that have auto- manufacturing experience but that same experience can be translated into renewable and alternative energy companies. The same people who bend steel to make cars can bend steel to make wind turbines. The same people who know how to program machines to build parts for a car can program machines to build parts for a solar panel or a wind turbines and let me just say one other thing which is the vehicle is not going away. We know that the vehicle will always be in demand. The question is where it's gonna be built and what is it going to be. So maybe the-- and I believe the internal combustion engine will go away but I do also believe that the electric vehicle will be here or the fuel so, whatever the next generation of that is it's gotta be build somewhere, right? And why not have it here? >> Speaking of the future. There are couple of questions about your future after 7 years, last time this Governor of Michigan, what would you do? Will you still be in politics? Would you choose a different career path? Would you go into the Obama Administration? >> I really don't know what I'm gonna do but I can tell you I will have had a lot of experience in lessons in leading during a time of sustained crisis. >> Right. >> I would say the biggest lesson, and this is what I may talk about after I'm done is that you have to continue to play offense during that time you can't just honker down. You gotta continue to lead and push forward despite all of the challenges and you have to have a skin as thick as-- >> Yes, okay. Well, I just-- Governor, I wanna thank you. >> I appreciate it. >> I wanna say that we are on the side of the angels and with this as well. 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