Is Michigan a ‘Sticky’ State?

According to the Pew Research Center, Michigan is a SUPER sticky state: about 67 percent of adults over 18 stay in Michigan. But Texas is the stickiest of them all, retaining almost 79 percent of adults over 18. District of Columbia is the slipperiest state, retaining only 13 percent of adults over 18.

So if so many people that were born in Michigan are staying there…why all the fuss about brain drain? Because it is the young adults that have just graduated that are leaving. Over half of all Michigan public university graduates leave the state within one year of graduation. And according ot Michigan Future Inc., those are the people Michigan needs most.

Michigan Radio is starting a new series, called Generation Y Michigan, to explore why young adults are, or aren’t leaving Michigan.

Stay posted to get updates on the series.

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