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Why a liberal arts degree holds value in the second machine age
I recently caught up with an old friend whose daughter graduated from high school this year. My friend’s pride in her high-achieving child was obvious,
I recently caught up with an old friend whose daughter graduated from high school this year. My friend’s pride in her high-achieving child was obvious,
UPDATE: We released our report: A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: A 21st Century state policy agenda Click here to read it: https://www.michiganfuture.org/report-path-good-paying-careers-michiganders-21st-century-state-policy-agenda/ As
My eight-year-old son recently finished the last of his summer day camps at the Robot Garage in Grosse Pointe Park. The camp combined three of Jackson’s
A central conclusion of Michigan Future’s research over the decades is that the most prosperous places are those with the highest proportion of adults with
For years I have ben an advocate for using standardized tests as the prime way to evaluate the quality of K-12 schools and to hold
One of the new economic realities, that can’t be altered by politics or public policy, is that smarter and smarter machines are going to accelerate
Seems like a lot of what I write about these days is trying to set the record straight on the value of a four year
Michigan Future is working on its first ever state policy agenda. The agenda will be designed to identify state policies that can raise living standards
The Washington Post in an article entitled The interesting thing that happened when Kansas cut taxes and California hiked them provides an update on the
I’m sure some of you are asking “what do Chicago and California have in common?” The answer is conventional wisdom writing them off. As we
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