

Collateral Consequences: Making prisoner reentry harder and recidivism more likely
Last week I summarized the section of our recently released paper, A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: Sharing prosperity with those not participating in


Why criminal justice reform is a part of our path to prosperity
If you’ve been following this blog, you know we recently released the second in-depth topic paper outlining the proposed policy changes that we believe can


Increasing wages and supports for Michigan workers
Our latest report provides a set of ideas for how we improve living standards for Michiganders not participating in the high-wage knowledge economy. Last week


A safety net that promotes opportunity
Our latest report, Sharing prosperity with those not participating in the high-wage knowledge-based economy, is based on two major understandings. The first is that even


Our shared prosperity state policy recommendations
As we explored in my last post Michigan structurally has too many low-paid jobs. About half of Michigan jobs pay less than $15 an hour.


Too much low-paid work
A recent Washington Post article was entitled Half the jobs in America pay less than $18 an hour. Can Trump help? The consequence of way too many