Florida and Michigan academic test scores
For decades many business, political and media elites have told us that Florida is the model for improving student achievement. They constantly urge Michigan to
Which state economy should Michigan want to be like?
In our last post we detailed that states with employment most concentrated in production––front-line factory––jobs are all structurally low-prosperity states, with per capita income substantially
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
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
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
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
