The Neighborhood Talent Concentration Initiative
Now is the time to make fundamental change in the state’s economic development playbook. What we have been doing has not worked. Michigan’s per capita
Michigan median wages: From nineteen percent above to nine percent below
Michigan was one of the most prosperous places on the planet in 1979. Its per capita income three percent above the national average. No more!
842,000 Michigan children live in a working ALICE household
This post is a correction and update of a post originally published in April 2022. Important new report from United for ALICE entitled ALICE in
Employers can help make EITC expansion a success
Terrific news from Lansing. Starting with the 2022 tax year the state match for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit is now 30 percent up
EITC expansion not quite complete
One more important step to go to complete the historic expansion of the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit. Starting with the 2022 tax year the
Foundation skills in the age of Artificial Intelligence
A little more than three years ago the Grand Rapids Public Museum hosted Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The conference was organized
