

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


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


Technology driving wages down in the hospitality industry
The hospitality industry is characterized by lots of low-wage workers. E. Tammy Kim, in a New York Times column entitled The Gig Economy is Coming


The economy is producing way too many low-wage jobs
Readers of this blog know that at Michigan Future we believe the mission of economic policy should be income based, not employment or economic growth


Outsmarting the robots recommended media
We provided participants in our education redesign conference, Outsmarting the Robots with a list of recommended reading, podcast and video. We wanted to share those


The big picture: Michigan’s core economic challenges
Let’s start the new year with the big picture. An overview of the structural economic challenges Michigan faces if we are to have an economy