Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 5: Developing writers
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity – and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This is the […]
Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 4: Beyond free college
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity – and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This fourth post […]
Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 3: college completion rates
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity – and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This third post […]
Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 2: Educational attainment and economic well-being
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity – and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This second post […]
Redesigning education in Michigan – Part 1
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing a series of posts about the importance of educational attainment – both to our statewide economy and to individual economic mobility and prosperity – and how we should be designing our K-16 education system to increase the number of Michiganders who attain bachelor’s degrees. This first post […]
The Coalition for a Working Parents Tax Cut
Last week, we announced the formation of the Coalition for a Working Parents Tax Cut. The coalition consists of more than 80 groups and individuals, representing a broad cross-section of sectors, ideologies, and geographies, committed to the goal of providing more support to working parents with young children. The coalition sent a letter to the […]
How to support ALICE households at scale
In my last post, I explored the data in the latest ALICE report which showed that the share of Michigan households that did not earn enough to pay for basic necessities increased sharply between 2021 and 2022. The core reason for the increase is that the pandemic-induced social safety net erected in 2020 and 2021 […]
Economy improves, ALICE rate goes up
The Michigan Association of United Ways recently released a 2024 update to their 2023 ALICE report. ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, and the ALICE rate captures the share of Michigan households with incomes below the “ALICE threshold,” the estimated income a household needs to pay for basic expenses like housing, childcare, food, […]
The transformational impact of a working parents tax cut
We have been arguing that our proposal for a working parents tax cut would be transformational for hardworking Michigan parents with young children. Our proposed credit would direct $5,000 to EITC-eligible Michigan parents for each child they have under the age of 3, and $2,500 for each child between the ages of 3 and 6. […]
Michigan is missing talent-magnet neighborhoods
Last year, we released a proposal for the Neighborhood Talent Concentration Initiative (NTCI). The proposal was built on what we see as the new calculus of economic development: that talent attracts capital, and quality of place attracts talent. If you want a thriving state economy, you need to create the kinds of places that attract […]