10 Questions for Jennifer Granholm

Michigan's Canadian-born governor on her state's challenges. Jennifer Granholm will now take your questions

Joe Vaughn for TIME

Jennifer Granholm

Will Detroit ever really recover, in your honest opinion?

Jared May, BOSTON

Absolutely! We have great bones as a city and as a state. We have more engineers in this region than in all the other states plus Canada and Mexico combined. We are in a tough period because we have an auto crisis and a financial crisis, so we're hit harder than any other state in the country.

How will re-educating the unemployed help if there are no jobs for them to fill?

Nicholas Knox, DAVISON, MICH.

This is the perfect time to go back and get retrained--but get retrained...

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