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Minnesota Is A Successful High Tax State

Minnesota is a successful high tax state

  • January 10, 2023
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
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Minnesota is a high tax state. Has been for decades. Minnesota is the Great Lakes States best in economic well being and demographic outcomes. Has been for decades. Michigan is not a high tax state. Its taxes per capita far…

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Minnesota Has Not Lost A Congressional Seat In Six Decades

Minnesota has not lost a congressional seat in six decades

  • January 3, 2023
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
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For nearly two decades we have urged Michigan economic policy makers to use Minnesota as a model. Because Minnesota across the board has the Great Lakes best economic outcomes. From low unemployment to high labor force participation to better than…

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Everything Is Not Fine.

Everything is Not Fine.

  • September 14, 2021
  • Kristen McDonald Rivet
  • Public Investment, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments
At Michigan Future, we believe that there are structural issues in our economy that will take bold and transformative action to remedy. It is time for Michigan to step up with a large expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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Michigan Future’s American Rescue Plan Priorities

Michigan Future’s American Rescue Plan priorities

  • July 6, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 0 Comments

For the first time in a generation Michigan, its schools and local units of government have new revenue for public investments. An unprecedented amount of new money, anchored by the American Rescue Plan funding. Which, of course, raises the question…

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Great Recession Lessons: More Government Aid, Less Red Tape

Great Recession lessons: More government aid, less red tape

  • June 15, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 0 Comments

In a terrific Washington Post op ed Neel Kashkari lays out Great Recession lessons that should guide us in dealing with our current pandemic-driven economic collapse. Kashkari is president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and…

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Raising Taxes Now Should Be On The Table

Raising taxes now should be on the table

  • May 25, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 4 Comments

Bob Emerson and John Walsh in a guest column for Bridge lay out a set of principles that should guide Michigan policymakers as they deal with an unprecedented shortfall in state revenue this fiscal year and next. Worth reading! Both…

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The Blanchard Recipe For Economic Revival

The Blanchard recipe for economic revival

  • April 27, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 0 Comments

As Michigan, almost certainly, faces its most serious economic challenge since the Great Depression, it is worth recalling how Michigan has dealt with previous economic downturns. What follows is a rerun of a post I did in 2012 entitled Jim…

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The Competitiveness Case For Higher Michigan Taxes

The competitiveness case for higher Michigan taxes

  • February 19, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 0 Comments

Dug Song, co-founder and general manager of Duo Security, in an interview with Crain's Detroit Business, makes the case for higher Michigan taxes. Higher Michigan taxes to invest in education and transit. The two assets that Song believes Michigan needs…

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Cities And Universities Drive Economic Growth

Cities and universities drive economic growth

  • November 6, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 0 Comments

Crain's Chad Livengood begins his story on the new University of Michigan Detroit Center for Innovation this way: Across the Potomac River from the nation's capital, Virginia Tech is developing a 1 million-square-foot innovation campus in Alexandria, Va., that's two…

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Schlissel Makes The Case For Public Investments

Schlissel makes the case for public investments

  • July 24, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 0 Comments

In an interview with Bridge magazine University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel lays out the case for public investments as essential to the future success of Michigan. Particularly public investments in higher education. Schilissel says: It used to be the…

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