As we have written frequently being highly ranked in business climate rankings seems increasingly to be the goal/measuring stick of economic policy makers and too
After the 2010 election I was asked by several publications to write about what I expected to happen to state economic policy. My basic answer
The second recommended New York Times article that portrays the changing way work is being organized is entitled: As boom lures app creators, tough part
We continue to act as if the job market should look like it did in the past. With the same occupations, the same pay and
Before the college football season began the University of Southern California was ranked #1, Notre Dame unranked. As the college football season draws to a
As we have explored previously (see my Dome article), Indiana is the Great Lakes state that is most often held out as the model for
The period covered in our new annual report, 2001 to 2010, was noteworthy for its weakness nationally. The expansion from 2001 to 2007 was anemic,
Michigan Future’s work started with the question “where do we want to go from here?” Our answer: a high-prosperity Michigan – a place with a
In a March 2011 I wrote a post about how the Tax Foundation’s rankings compare to state economic well being. I did something similar in
We close our presentations with “either Michigan gets younger and better educated or we will get poorer”. Both matter and for both the trends are
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