Michigan’s first Office of Rural Development is outlining initial priority areas.

During a roundtable Wednesday morning, Deputy Director Sarah Lucas told reporters the office plans to focus on workforce, housing, and broadband needs in Michigan’s rural communities to start.

“A lot of communities have lost a lot of their young people in the last several decades which has really impacted the pipeline for our workforce and has left a lot of our industries in a really tough spot,” she says.

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