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Author: Lou Glazer

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Minnesota Is A Successful High Tax State

Minnesota is a successful high tax state

  • January 10, 2023
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
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Minnesota is a high tax state. Has been for decades. Minnesota is the Great Lakes States best in economic well being and demographic outcomes. Has been for decades. Michigan is not a high tax state. Its taxes per capita far…

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Minnesota Has Not Lost A Congressional Seat In Six Decades

Minnesota has not lost a congressional seat in six decades

  • January 3, 2023
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
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For nearly two decades we have urged Michigan economic policy makers to use Minnesota as a model. Because Minnesota across the board has the Great Lakes best economic outcomes. From low unemployment to high labor force participation to better than…

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The Case For A 60 Percent EITC

The case for a 60 percent EITC

  • December 27, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
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A year and half ago the Michigan Future Board proposed that the state expand its Earned Income Tax Credit tenfold. Going from a 6 percent match of the federal credit to 60 percent. This is at a time, when despite…

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Higher Education Attainment Means More Work And Higher Wages

Higher education attainment means more work and higher wages

  • December 8, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics each year publishes a chart that details the unemployment rate and median weekly earnings by education attainment for those 25 and older who work full time. The data for 2121 are below. Year after year…

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Now Is The Time To Expand Michigan’s EITC

Now is the time to expand Michigan’s EITC

  • December 1, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

Now is the time to expand Michigan's EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit). Michigan's low-wage workers need help paying the bills now. Michigan employers having trouble finding enough workers to operate and expand their enterprises also need help now. Immediate expansion…

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Learning From Florida: 3rd Grade Reading Mandates Don’t Work

Learning from Florida: 3rd grade reading mandates don’t work

  • November 17, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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This post reruns a 2017 post by our former colleague Pat Cooney entitled the Problem with 3rd grade reading mandates. In it Pat lays out the evidence that 3rd grade reading mandates don't work and offers an alternative that does…

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Michigan Needs A General Motors 2030 Economic Development Strategy

Michigan needs a General Motors 2030 economic development strategy

  • November 10, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

In 1979 General Motors employed 468,000 American hourly workers. 76 percent of their U.S. workforce. In 2021 General Motors employed 45,000 American hourly workers. 46 percent of their U.S. workforce. Today 24,000 work at the General Motors Global Technical Center…

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Florida And Michigan Academic Test Scores

Florida and Michigan academic test scores

  • November 1, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

For decades many business, political and media elites have told us that Florida is the model for improving student achievement. They constantly urge Michigan to replicate former Governor Jeb Bush's 1999 A+ Plan. Today, once again, Florida is being trumpeted…

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Which State Economy Should Michigan Want To Be Like?

Which state economy should Michigan want to be like?

  • October 25, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

In our last post we detailed that states with employment most concentrated in production––front-line factory––jobs are all structurally low-prosperity states, with per capita income substantially below the nation's. Those states include Michigan and Tennessee, both with per capita income twelve…

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Factory Jobs Are Not The Path To Michigan Prosperity

Factory jobs are not the path to Michigan prosperity

  • October 18, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

In 2004 Don Grimes and I wrote A New Path to Prosperity?. The report detailed that prosperous states were no longer manufacturing-based states, but were now those over concentrated in knowledge-based industries. In an accompanying Detroit News op ed, subtitled…

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  • The case for a 60 percent EITC December 27, 2022
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