Urban amenities and talent attraction
Terrific CityLab article entitled The Real Source of American Urban Revival. It documents the trend we have been writing about for nearly a decade that
Renters and economic prosperity
A core finding of Michigan Future’s research has been that what made us prosperous in the past, won’t in the future. The big change is
The college grad multiplier
In a previous post on why retaining and attracting young professional was an economic development priority I wrote: The reason they are important to economic
40th in employment
Michigan’s unemployment rate in January is the lowest it has been in fifteen years. But the state ranked 40th in 2015 in the proportion of
Definitively Michigan is not back
This blog––and the work of Michigan Future––has been about the economy primarily and to a lesser degree the policies needed to improve the standard of
States in recession and state economic policy
Most observers labeled Michigan’s economy from 2000-2007 as a single state recession. And interpreted it as caused primarily by state policy. In our reports Don
