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Higher Education Attainment Means More Work And Higher Wages

Higher education attainment means more work and higher wages

  • December 8, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics each year publishes a chart that details the unemployment rate and median weekly earnings by education attainment for those 25 and older who work full time. The data for 2121 are below. Year after year…

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Learning From Florida: 3rd Grade Reading Mandates Don’t Work

Learning from Florida: 3rd grade reading mandates don’t work

  • November 17, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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This post reruns a 2017 post by our former colleague Pat Cooney entitled the Problem with 3rd grade reading mandates. In it Pat lays out the evidence that 3rd grade reading mandates don't work and offers an alternative that does…

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Florida And Michigan Academic Test Scores

Florida and Michigan academic test scores

  • November 1, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

For decades many business, political and media elites have told us that Florida is the model for improving student achievement. They constantly urge Michigan to replicate former Governor Jeb Bush's 1999 A+ Plan. Today, once again, Florida is being trumpeted…

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Why Michigan Doesn’t Pivot To A High-prosperity Economic Strategy

Why Michigan doesn’t pivot to a high-prosperity economic strategy

  • September 8, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 1 Comment

The first post I wrote for this blog was 13 years ago. It was entitled the Need For a New Michigan and made the case that what made us prosperous in the past, won't in the future. That if we…

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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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Anthony Carnevale On Why Completing College Matters In Michigan

Anthony Carnevale on why completing college matters in Michigan

  • May 17, 2022
  • Anthony Carnevale
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

We are honored to have the opportunity to publish this column by Anthony P. Carnevale, the director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The economy is changing, but will Michigan change with it? The United States…

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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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Why Intel’s Chip Plant Is Going To Metro Columbus

Why Intel’s chip plant is going to metro Columbus

  • March 15, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Recently Intel announced they are going to invest an initial $20 billion in a new chip fabrication plant in metro Columbus Ohio. Initial because Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger indicated that Columbus could become "the largest semiconductor manufacturing location on the…

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Concentrating Talent Is The Path To Prosperity

Concentrating talent is the path to prosperity

  • November 9, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

The 21st Century path to prosperity––to a broad middle class––is concentrating talent. Not factory jobs. Why? Because today's mass middle class are professionals and managers who work in offices, schools and hospitals. Not production workers who work in factories. You…

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Rivian HQ And Amazon HQ2 Are The Path To Prosperity

Rivian HQ and Amazon HQ2 are the path to prosperity

  • October 21, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

A year ago Rivian, often described as the Tesla of trucks, announced that they were moving their headquarters from suburban Detroit to Irvine California. The announcement received hardly any Michigan press coverage. And, even more concerning, no reaction from Michigan's…

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