![](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/patrick-cooney-headshot-e1674013092677-336x378.jpg)
![Patrick Cooney](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Pat_Blogphoto-140x140.jpg)
Expanding Michigan’s Earned Income Tax Credit can combat benefit cliffs
The appropriate size and scope of our social safety-net has long been a matter of disagreement between politicians, researchers, and advocates on the left and
![](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/41-336x282.png)
![Lou Glazer](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lou-e1408375921110-140x140.jpg)
Expand Michigan’s Earned Income Tax Credit now
Our analysis of the robust 2019 Michigan labor market makes clear that Michigan has a two-tier economy. Nearly six in ten Michigan payroll jobs pay
![](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/87-336x282.png)
![Lou Glazer](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lou-e1408375921110-140x140.jpg)
Michigan’s lack of jobs in high-wage occupations
Terrific op ed in Crain’s Detroit Business by Glenn Stevens Jr., executive director of MICHauto and Britany Affolter-Caine, executive director of Michigan’s University Research Corridor.
![](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/15-336x282.png)
![Lou Glazer](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lou-e1408375921110-140x140.jpg)
The paucity of high-paid blue collar manufacturing jobs
In a 2012 post entitled Low pay driving job vacancies I posited that the reason manufacturers had a shortage of skilled trades workers was low
![](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/78-336x282.png)
![Lou Glazer](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lou-e1408375921110-140x140.jpg)
Get younger and better educated or get poorer
For years we ended our presentations with a slide that said Michigan must get younger and better educated or we will get poorer. Where younger
![](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/9-336x282.png)
![Lou Glazer](https://michiganfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lou-e1408375921110-140x140.jpg)
How much workers made in the pandemic labor market
We have explored frequently that those with a four-year degree or more over a forty-year career work more and earn more than those with less