The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) is a
public-private partnership agency and
economic development corporation in the U.S. state of
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
. Operating under the slogan "
Pure Michigan", MEDC attempts to encourage the tourism potential of the state and foster business relocations to Michigan.
MEDC is the successor-in-interest of the Michigan Jobs Commission, created in 1993. The commission was translated into the Development Corporation in 1999. Its growth and operations during the following twenty years reflected the urgency of moving away from Michigan's perceived standing as a one-industry state dependent on fluctuating conditions in the
motor vehicle
A motor vehicle, also known as a motorized vehicle, automotive vehicle, automobile, or road vehicle, is a self-propelled land vehicle, commonly wheeled, that does not operate on railway track, rails (such as trains or trams), does not fly (such ...
industry.
See also
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Educational inequality in southeast Michigan
References
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Economic Development Corporation
Economic Development Corporation
State departments of economic development in the United States
Economic Development Corporation