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A recent Detroit Free Press article entitled GM’s job cuts shift to a new kind of worker needed is worth checking out. It is a pretty

A recent Detroit Free Press article entitled GM’s job cuts shift to a new kind of worker needed is worth checking out. It is a pretty

At least rhetorically––not so much when it comes to funding––there is a lot of support on a bi-partisan basis for community colleges. They are seen

After reading the title of this post, I’m sure many of you are asking “What does baseball statistics have to do with standardized tests?” The

2017 per capita income data for states has been published. What the data make clear for Michigan is that we are now structurally a low-prosperity

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ report The Financial Returns from College across Generations: Large but Unequal details the bachelors degree premium irrespective of

In our last post we explored 2017 American Community Survey data on median earnings from work of those 25 and older who worked for the

The recently released 2017 American Community Survey provides data on median earnings from work of those 25 and older who worked. The table at the

Important new report from the Economic Policy Institute on the continuing pulling away of the top one percent from the bottom 99 percent. The big

The Federal Reserve recently published their Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2017. It reports on the results of a survey of American’s assessments

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