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Find the Michigan Future blogs that interest you most
If you read our blog you know that we frequently write about topics from our latest report “A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders:
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Could Michigan See a New Historic Preservation Tax Credit? (Please?)
Our recent report, “A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: A 21st Century state policy agenda,” lays out the importance of placemaking to a
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Why Pittsburgh is booming
We have written frequently (most recently here and here) about Pittsburgh as Exhibit A for how so-called Rust Belt regions can return to prosperity. The
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Not investing is not an option
The policy agenda we released in April is built around public investment. Years of cuts to our education system, our cities, to public services, and
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A decade of change in employment by occupation group
The table below displays changes in employment nationally by the minimum education requirement for occupations as calculated by the U.S. Department of Labor. Its the
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Accelerating an American caste system
Readers of our latest report know that we very much agree with Robert Putnam’s framing, in his book Our Kids, of the basic economic division in