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Are upper middle class parents destroying the American Dream for everyone else’s kids?
This post was first published in July 2017. As America confronts the reality of structural racism, it is clear we need to put on the
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Time for Michigan colleges to eliminate the SAT?
Paul Tough has a new op ed in the New York Times entitled Go Ahead, California, Get Rid of the SAT. It’s time for Michigan
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Raising taxes now should be on the table
Bob Emerson and John Walsh in a guest column for Bridge lay out a set of principles that should guide Michigan policymakers as they deal
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The case for no red tape cash benefits
The struggles way too many Michiganders are going through to get safety net benefits make clear that we need to go to no red tape
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The case for a cash-based safety net
As we have explored in our lessons from a pandemic-driven economy posts (here and here) what the multitude of low-wage workers need most is cash.
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Who loses most in a pandemic-driven economy
Insightful analysis from McKinsey on the economic consequences of a pandemic-driven economy. Their headline findings are: We estimate that up to 57 million US jobs