Obama to focus on bolstering Michigan's future

By Gordon Trowbridge

Sen. Barack Obama today brings his traveling economic policy show to Michigan, the nation's most economically battered state, laying out a series of policies that aides believe will convince voters here he can help reverse the state's decades-long slide. "What he's going to be focused on a lot (today) is what we can do to actually help America compete and succeed in the global economy over the long run," said Jason Furman, Obama's new director of economic policy. After a week of appearances in swing states, in which he has mostly touted steps to address the downturn, Furman said today's argument will be more focused on the future: that policies, from improving education to boosting research on new auto technologies, will help Michigan and other Rust Belt states hang on to jobs they have been losing for a generation.

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