40th in employment
Michigan’s unemployment rate in January is the lowest it has been in fifteen years. But the state ranked 40th in 2015 in the proportion of
March 17, 2016
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Michigan’s unemployment rate in January is the lowest it has been in fifteen years. But the state ranked 40th in 2015 in the proportion of
This blog––and the work of Michigan Future––has been about the economy primarily and to a lesser degree the policies needed to improve the standard of
Most observers labeled Michigan’s economy from 2000-2007 as a single state recession. And interpreted it as caused primarily by state policy. In our reports Don
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There continues to be a widespread belief that low student achievement in places like Detroit have little to do with the quality of the schools.
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Recently I have been receiving lots of questions about how to improve the economy in northern lower peninsula Michigan. To be honest, we don’t have
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