2015 turns out to be the year that a growing economy finally delivered rising incomes for low and middle income Americans and Michiganders. Median household income
According to a 2016 Great Lakes Economic Consulting report entitled Michigan’s Great Disinvestment, 11 Michigan cities, one township, one county, and five school districts are in
Insightful L.A. Times op ed by Mark Vallianatos and Mott Smith entitled L.A. isn’t a suburb. We need to stop planning it like one. The three core characteristics of
As is often discussed on this blog, there is perhaps nothing more important to the health of Michigan’s economy than increasing the proportion of Michiganders
The entire Michigan Future staff is going to start sharing this blog with me. The plan is to have a new blog Tuesday through Friday.
Two recent New Times columns make the case that lower taxes are not the magic elixir that automatically leads to economic success. Both worth reading.
I’m rereading The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. As I discussed previously, if I only could read only one book on
The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is a constant source of outstanding analysis on the relationship between education attainment and employment and
In this post I want to explore how many working Michiganders are not working full time year round and/or are in lower wage occupations. The
In our last post we looked at the unacceptable increase in poverty in Michigan that has occurred over the long term. From 1969 to 2014.
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