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Michigan Incentive Programs: Then and Now ANN ARBOR, MI (Michigan Radio) - Michigan is struggling with a brain drain. Retraining and attracting the best and brightest is no easy task with a jobless rate of 12.9%, but this is not a new problem for Michigan. According to Michigan History in 1749 in an effort to attract settlers to Detroit, the governor general of New France offered each man who would settle there a spade, an axe, a cow, a sow, a ploughshare, one large and one small wagon and seed. That was Michigan's first incentive program. Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry and Charity Nebbe take a look back. © Copyright 2012, Michigan Radio