Blue collar manufacturing jobs––officially called production jobs––are no longer high paid. In 2024 Michigan had 445,000 production jobs out of 4.39 million payroll jobs. A
Conventional wisdom has it that there are myriads of high-wage jobs that don’t require a B.A. but do require something more than a high school
As we explored in our last post conventional wisdom about the value of a B.A. in obtaining a good-paying job and having a prosperous forty-year
We have written frequently about the wage premium enjoyed by those with a four-year degree or more. And yet we continue with a public conversation
Michigan’s per capita income in 2022 was 13 percent below the national average, the lowest compared to the nation ever. The state ranked 39th. (For those
This post was originally published in November 2017. It is arguably more relevant today than then. As Farhad Manjoo details in a recent New York
This post was originally published in October 2016. It is arguably more relevant today than then. As Farhad Manjoo details in a recent New York
A little more than three years ago the Grand Rapids Public Museum hosted Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The conference was organized
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
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
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