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cials hope the initiative will save the state millions of dollars in health care costs.
• Snyder pointed his state's Pure Michigan Talent Connect website, intended to give employers and jobseekers a place to find each other and allow workers to assess their skills and connect with mentors and internships, as among his state's best practices on job creation.
• Snyder noted that Michigan has gone from having a 14 percent unemployment rate at the height of its employment woes in the last decade to 8.5 percent unemployment now.
• Snyder also suggested raising the cap for new temporary work visas for immigrant professionals and eliminating the cap for those holding a master's degree or higher from U.S. universities, opening the door for those immigrants to start businesses in Michigan and other states.

• "We have many foreign nationals coming in; we're educating them, and then we tell them to get out. That's just dumb," he said. "They create jobs."
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