The severity of the state’s reaction to the COVID-19 coronavirus has devastated businesses all across the state. While safety must remain the top priority, there are public health ramifications from long recessions, too. Michigan needs to reopen its economy as soon as possible.
The Michigan Chamber of Commerce and Mackinac Center for Public Policy consulted with our members, advisors and other scholars and developed principles to help guide policymakers through this difficult, but important period. The guidelines aim to maintain public safety while simultaneously igniting a full and speedy economic recovery.
Join us to hear leaders of both organizations explain how the state should approach safely reopening society and setting our economy up for a fast recovery.
This event will take place on Tuesday, May 12 at 11 a.m. EDT. To RSVP and receive access to the forum, please register below.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
11:00 a.m. to Noon EDT
Online virtual program
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Rich Studley is President & CEO of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a statewide business advocacy organization that represents approximately 5,000 member employers, trade associations and local chambers of commerce of every size and type in all 83 counties of the state. Rich has been on the staff of the Michigan Chamber since 1981. He began his career with the Chamber as Manager of Taxation and Labor Relations. He then served as Senior Vice President of Government Relations and then Executive Vice President before being named President & CEO in 2008.
Joseph G. Lehman An engineer by training, Joe joined the Mackinac Center in 1995 and was named president in 2008. During his tenure Michigan has seen numerous free-market policy advances in education, labor and state fiscal affairs. Frequently published in national and state media, Lehman also has trained more than 600 public policy executives internationally on strategic leadership and communications. He and his wife are founders of Midland County Habitat for Humanity.
