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Low unemployment is not economic well being
Three New York Times articles lay out the new reality that having a low unemployment rate does not mean that American households are doing well
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Michigan has had a good eight years, Minnesota has been better
Over the last eight years Michigan has experienced a strong recovery from the Great Recession. The headline being 500,000 new jobs. Good news indeed for
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Candidate question: How are you going to pay for it?
Terrific column by editorial page editor of The Detroit News Nolan Finley entitled Where’s the damn money?. Finley writes: Pithy slogans won’t fill a single pothole.
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Not much of a job ladder for low-wage workers
Really interesting research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on low-wage workers moving up to better-paying jobs. (You can find the research here
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Inclusiveness isn’t just a feel-good notion; it’s an economic imperative
In researching my recent report for Michigan Future about how metropolitan Minneapolis became one of the wealthiest and most livable regions of the country, one
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The 99 percent in Michigan and Minnesota
Important new report from the Economic Policy Institute on the continuing pulling away of the top one percent from the bottom 99 percent. The big