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Let’s make rising income for all Michiganders a statewide priority
For the past year, Michigan Future has collaborated with a group of economic and community development leaders from around the state. Together, this collaborative released
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The market says college is relevant
I am a long-time fan of Kettering University. Particularly their integration of learning and work with their one semester at school followed by one semester
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Michigan Future’s most-read blogs
Month after month, year after year, there are four most-read blogs. All have in common an exploration of the skills and occupations that are most
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The competitiveness case for higher Michigan taxes
Dug Song, co-founder and general manager of Duo Security, in an interview with Crain’s Detroit Business, makes the case for higher Michigan taxes. Higher Michigan
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How to improve community college completion rates
By and large across Michigan and the country community college completion rates are quite low. As detailed in Redesigning America’s Community Colleges this largely is
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The challenges of short-term certificates
This post was originally written for and published by Inside Higher Education. They generously gave us permission to publish the post. It lays out reasons