Michigan political leaders, on a bi-partisan basis, have made manufacturing the lynchpin of their plans for restoring Michigan to prosperity. No question manufacturing––high paid factory
For decades there has been widespread concern on a bi-partisan basis about how lousy American kids perform on international math and science tests. Those test
In my Detroit Free Press op ed comparing the Michigan economy during Governor Blanchard’s first term to the Michigan economy so far under Governor Snyder
Don Grimes and I are putting the finishing touches on our new report. The topic is the transformation of the American economy over two decades:
Michigan Future Schools (MFS), an initiative of Michigan Future Inc., a non-partisan, economy-focused think tank based in Ann Arbor, announced that four new Detroit high
Conventional wisdom is that college educated Millennials are being crushed by student loans. A burden that will weigh them down economically for a lifetime. Its
I am a skeptic when it comes to government –– national, state and local –– picking industries –– either old ones to save or new
What concerns me most about Michigan’s politics is how much of it, on a bi-partisan basis, seems designed for the 20th Century. We seem to
In two recent New York Times posts Paul Krugman has explored the economic benefits dense regions enjoy compared to those characterized by sprawl. They are
The Free Press published Sunday an op ed I wrote about the current Michigan economic recovery compared to that in the early Eighties. You can
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