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Author: Lou Glazer

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Detailing The Failure Of Michigan’s Motor Vehicle Factory Strategy

Detailing the failure of Michigan’s motor vehicle factory strategy

  • July 21, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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As Rick Haglund chronicled for Crain's Detroit Business, since General Motors in 1992 chose Arlington Texas over Willow Run for a motor vehicle assembly plant, Michigan’s economic development priority has been to compete for auto assembly and auto parts plants.…

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Detailing The Failure Of Michigan’s Low-tax Strategy

Detailing the failure of Michigan’s low-tax strategy

  • July 14, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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Michigan's low-tax strategy has failed. Since 2000 Michigan has experienced––in good times and bad and no matter which party has been in control in Lansing––far worse than the nation employment and wage growth. In 2000 Michigan accounted for 3.6 percent…

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Expanding Michigan’s Refundable Earned Income Tax Credit

Expanding Michigan’s refundable Earned Income Tax Credit

  • July 7, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

Below is the text of a letter to the Governor, Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House sent by Tom Hickson, Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy Michigan Catholic Conference; Andrew T. Johnston Senior Vice President, Advocacy &…

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Post Pandemic Still Too Many Low-wage Jobs

Post pandemic still too many low-wage jobs

  • June 14, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

To us the data are clear: Michigan has a two-tier economy. This two-tier economy is prevalent across all of Michigan and across all races and ethnicities. And it predates the pandemic, as evidenced by the Michigan Association of United Ways…

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Indiana’s Failed Low Tax Economic Strategy

Indiana’s failed low tax economic strategy

  • June 7, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

A decade ago in a column for Dome we made the case that Indiana's low tax economic strategy was a failure and would continue to fail going forward. We wrote: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy on Monday is hosting…

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Upper Income Households By Education Attainment

Upper income households by education attainment

  • May 24, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

A new Pew Research Center analysis calculates the proportion of lower income, middle income and upper income households in 1971 and 2021. The headline of the analysis is the shrinking of the American middle class over the last half century.…

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Brian Calley Makes The Case For EITC Expansion

Brian Calley makes the case for EITC expansion

  • May 10, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 1 Comment

Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM) President and CEO Brian Calley in an interview with the Michigan Association of United Ways made the case for why a big expansion of the state's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is good for…

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Could The Detroit Three Be Mobility Industry Minnows?

Could the Detroit Three be mobility industry minnows?

  • April 28, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

The New York Times in an article entitled Jim Farley tries to reinvent Ford and catch up to Elon Musk and Tesla writes: Yet Wall Street still thinks that Tesla, which is worth more than $1 trillion, will dominate the…

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44 Percent Of Metro Detroit Jobs Pay Middle Class Wages

44 percent of Metro Detroit jobs pay middle class wages

  • April 21, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Important new metro Detroit educational attainment report from the Detroit Regional Chamber entitled 2022 State of Talent. Worth checking out. The report portrays a region that continues to be a laggard in post-secondary attainment. And the negative impact that has…

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642,000 Michigan Children Live In A Working ALICE Household

642,000 Michigan children live in a working ALICE household

  • April 12, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

Important new report from United for ALICE entitled ALICE in focus: Children in financial hardship. United for ALICE found that nearly one million (946,119) children (17 or younger) in Michigan — 44% of all children — lived in a household…

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Recent Posts

  • Detailing the failure of Michigan’s motor vehicle factory strategy July 21, 2022
  • Detailing the failure of Michigan’s low-tax strategy July 14, 2022
  • Expanding Michigan’s refundable Earned Income Tax Credit July 7, 2022
  • Post pandemic still too many low-wage jobs June 14, 2022
  • Indiana’s failed low tax economic strategy June 7, 2022
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