Transformed work requires transformed policy
The key to having an economy with rising household incomes for all are good-paying jobs and careers. Where careers are for forty years, not a
Michiganders need a new economic agenda
Our new report, A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders, recommends big changes in state economic policy. The need for such an agenda is
Our first state policy agenda
Our new report, A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: A 21st Century State Policy Agenda, is about state policy. Our motivation in doing
When $14 million is worth more than $1.3 billion
Two important recent announcements of auto industry investment in the U.S. One from Toyota that they are investing $1.3 billion dollars in updating their Georgetown
What percentage of your job is “robotizable”?
This week, Marketplace started a great series on the ways that robots and automation are rapidly changing the jobs that are available to humans. This
Low-wage work and a better measure of economic well-being
The poverty rate is often used to measure economic well-being. When the poverty rate drops (which hasn’t happened in some time), we assume more people
