
Ohio is a poor state, so is Indiana
Across the ideological spectrum there is a virtual consensus that Ohio is Michigan’s main economic competitor. The state Michigan should want to look like. And

Across the ideological spectrum there is a virtual consensus that Ohio is Michigan’s main economic competitor. The state Michigan should want to look like. And

Michigan didn’t become a low-wage state by losing manufacturing. We became a low-wage state by failing to build what came next. Lou Glazer from Michigan

Today, Michigan Future announced that Kirk Profit will be the new chair of the organization’s board of directors. “We couldn’t be happier to name Kirk

Michigan is a poor state. Having fallen from 16th in per capita income in 1999 to 40th in 2024. The prime cause of Michigan’s collapse

This post was written by our former colleague Sarah Szurpicki in February 2017. Years before ChatGPT. We are republishing it now because it is at

In our last post we detailed metro Detroit’s most populous counties’ decline. In this post we widen our lens to look at all of the
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