

Where young professionals develop essential skills
In our last post we looked at the skills business-led KC Rising describes as essential to career success: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, proactivity


21st Century career success essential skills
The business-led metro Kansas City regional prosperity organization KC Rising recently published a terrific report defining what are the essential skills all students need for


Michigan’s top ten upper middle class occupations
This post answers the question “What are Michigan’s top ten upper middle class occupations?” Where we define upper middle class as jobs that pay at


STEM doesn’t dominate Michigan middle class jobs
This post updates our analysis of the proportion of good-paying Michigan jobs that are in STEM fields. This time using our middle class jobs for


New report: The real relationship between education and income
Michigan Future is always trying to understand the reality of today’s economy and labor market. Our mission is to catalyze a future for Michigan where


Michigan Future’s American Rescue Plan priorities
For the first time in a generation Michigan, its schools and local units of government have new revenue for public investments. An unprecedented amount of