Michigan’s missing young adults
There’s a lot of attention right now on the state’s population. We’re not attracting and retaining enough young people, our workforce is aging, and our
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There’s a lot of attention right now on the state’s population. We’re not attracting and retaining enough young people, our workforce is aging, and our
Now is the time to make fundamental change in the state’s economic development playbook. What we have been doing has not worked. Michigan’s per capita
Conventional wisdom has it that big cities are dead. This time the cause of their predicted demise is the pandemic. It is widely believed that
For years we ended our presentations with a slide that said Michigan must get younger and better educated or we will get poorer. Where younger
The 2010s were a great decade for America’s big cities. The 2020 Census found that each of the top 25 cities in the country gained
More than a decade ago we asked if the state’s economic development strategy worked, what state would you want Michigan to look like? Our answer
The Atlanta BeltLine is explicitly deigned to both improve the quality of life of current city residents and to attract new residents to the city,
This post is about what good-paying jobs focused economic development should look like. About what it takes to grow, retain and attract high-wage jobs. It
One can make a strong argument that Denver is the American region that has understood best the new reality that talent attracts capital. And because
Today we’re pleased to feature a guest post from Ned Staebler, the Vice President for Economic Development at Wayne State University and the President and
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