Michigan should invest in extra-curricular activities
My eight-year-old son recently finished the last of his summer day camps at the Robot Garage in Grosse Pointe Park. The camp combined three of Jackson’s favorite things – Lego, robotics and Minecraft – in a learning experience that both fed his passions and bolstered his STEM skills. This summer, Jackson also learned about credit, investing […]
Michigan Future introduces new bloggers
The entire Michigan Future staff is going to start sharing this blog with me. The plan is to have a new blog Tuesday through Friday. Joining me in blogging will be our policy associates: Patrick Cooney, Sarah Szurpicki and Kim Trent. We will be writing about our new state policy agenda project: Raising Michiganders Living […]
Taxes and economic growth
Two recent New Times columns make the case that lower taxes are not the magic elixir that automatically leads to economic success. Both worth reading. Bruce Bartlett, one of the authors of the Reagan tax cuts, in a critique of Donald Trump’s tax cut proposal provides an insightful overview of tax cuts effects on the […]
Talent and prosperity
A central conclusion of Michigan Future’s research over the decades is that the most prosperous places are those with the highest proportion of adults with a four year degree or more. (The only exception has been a few states that have benefited from high energy prices.) This, of course, is consistent with the economy becoming […]