The folly of government picking occupations
Interesting Wall Street Journal article entitled “Forget B-school, D-school is hot”. D for arts and design schools. Demand for these schools is growing as is private sector companies interest in hiring graduates. The article mentions Electronic Arts, JetBlue Airways, SAP, Intuit, P&G , Google, Nike and Fidelity Investments. This is consistent with the ideas in […]
Making the case that central cities matter
A central theme of ours is that economic growth is increasingly being driven by big metropolitan areas anchored by vibrant central cities. These are the places where both knowledge-based companies and college educated adults are concentrating. And the places where they concentrate are the most prosperous in the country. Where personal income is the highest, […]
Going in the wrong direction on research universities
Michigan spent most of the 20th century building a world class system of higher education – both universities and community colleges. That system is now at the top of the list of the assets Michigan has to grow its economy. It is vital to developing the concentration of talent we need to be successful in […]
Massachusetts as the model
Terrific Slate article entitled Don’t Mess with Massachusetts: It may be everyone’s punching bag, but it’s time to face facts: The Bay State is best. You read that right! Massachusetts as the state we should want to be like. How can that be? As Mark Vanhoenacker – the article’s author – writes: Massachusetts, in today’s political […]
Worth reading
Lots of good stuff being written about the themes we are focused on at Michigan Future. Here is a list of recent articles I think are particularly worth reading: A Gap in College Graduates Leaves Some Cities Behind, from the New York Times on a new analysis from Brookings. More evidence that the metropolitan areas […]
Talent trumps taxes again
Fascinating Crain’s Detroit Business article entitled “So why does a business leave northern Michigan for Florida? Sometimes, it’s talent, not taxes.” The story is about a Cadillac digital medical records company – BlueWare – leaving Michigan for Orlando, Florida. The reason? Crain’s writes: “I just couldn’t hire people in northern Michigan,” Harr (company founder Rose […]