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"MICHIGAN HAS OFTEN been called a \u201Ccanary in the coal mine.\u201D The state\u2019s once-dominant manufacturing base&amp;nbsp;\u2014 its&amp;nbsp;automotive sector \u2014&amp;nbsp;has always been susceptible to the slightest hint of recession.&amp;nbsp;As a result, economic contractions are typically felt here well in advance of other indicators that register on a national scale. Of course, the gutting of the U.S. manufacturing sector, which began after the rupture of the tech bubble in 2000, and continued throughout the new millennium\u2019s first decade \u2014 exacerbated by a real estate bubble that drove the entire Western banking system to the brink of collapse \u2014 has made our once-rich state\u2019s economic output comparable to states in the deep South."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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