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Michigan Needs A General Motors 2030 Economic Development Strategy

Michigan needs a General Motors 2030 economic development strategy

  • November 10, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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In 1979 General Motors employed 468,000 American hourly workers. 76 percent of their U.S. workforce. In 2021 General Motors employed 45,000 American hourly workers. 46 percent of their U.S. workforce. Today 24,000 work at the General Motors Global Technical Center…

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Which State Economy Should Michigan Want To Be Like?

Which state economy should Michigan want to be like?

  • October 25, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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In our last post we detailed that states with employment most concentrated in production––front-line factory––jobs are all structurally low-prosperity states, with per capita income substantially below the nation's. Those states include Michigan and Tennessee, both with per capita income twelve…

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Factory Jobs Are Not The Path To Michigan Prosperity

Factory jobs are not the path to Michigan prosperity

  • October 18, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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In 2004 Don Grimes and I wrote A New Path to Prosperity?. The report detailed that prosperous states were no longer manufacturing-based states, but were now those over concentrated in knowledge-based industries. In an accompanying Detroit News op ed, subtitled…

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The B.A. Work Earnings Premium Is Growing

The B.A. work earnings premium is growing

  • September 29, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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Increasingly our public conversation is dominated by claims that workers can do just as well without a four-year degree as with one. As we have explored frequently, pre pandemic––in both good and bad economic times––that simply was not accurate. Those…

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Minnesota Has The Lowest State Unemployment Rate Ever!

Minnesota has the lowest state unemployment rate ever!

  • August 23, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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In June Minnesota recorded the lowest state unemployment rate ever. An astonishingly low 1.8 percent. In July Minnesota's unemployment rate remained at a best in the nation, record low 1.8 percent. (Ever in the case of state's unemployment rates means…

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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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Indiana’s Failed Low Tax Economic Strategy

Indiana’s failed low tax economic strategy

  • June 7, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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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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Could The Detroit Three Be Mobility Industry Minnows?

Could the Detroit Three be mobility industry minnows?

  • April 28, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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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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Michigan’s Lack Of Jobs In High-wage Occupations

Michigan’s lack of jobs in high-wage occupations

  • January 6, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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Terrific op ed in Crain's Detroit Business by Glenn Stevens Jr., executive director of MICHauto and Britany Affolter-Caine, executive director of Michigan’s University Research Corridor. They write: The most successful strategy to ensure Michigan's long-term competitiveness and economic prosperity is…

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