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Factory jobs are not the path to Michigan prosperity
In 2004 Don Grimes and I wrote A New Path to Prosperity?. The report detailed that prosperous states were no longer manufacturing-based states, but were
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The B.A. work earnings premium is growing
Increasingly our public conversation is dominated by claims that workers can do just as well without a four-year degree as with one. As we have
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Why Michigan doesn’t pivot to a high-prosperity economic strategy
The first post I wrote for this blog was 13 years ago. It was entitled the Need For a New Michigan and made the case
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Minnesota has the lowest state unemployment rate ever!
In June Minnesota recorded the lowest state unemployment rate ever. An astonishingly low 1.8 percent. In July Minnesota’s unemployment rate remained at a best in
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Detailing the failure of Michigan’s motor vehicle factory strategy
As Rick Haglund chronicled for Crain’s Detroit Business, since General Motors in 1992 chose Arlington Texas over Willow Run for a motor vehicle assembly plant,
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Detailing the failure of Michigan’s low-tax strategy
Michigan’s low-tax strategy has failed. Since 2000 Michigan has experienced––in good times and bad and no matter which party has been in control in Lansing––far