The non student loan crisis

The public conversation about higher education is filled with doom and gloom about recent college graduates––particularly those with four year degrees or more in non-STEM fields––because of supposedly crushing student loans combined with low salaries. Increasingly we are also being…

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The economic case for density

In two recent New York Times posts Paul Krugman has explored the economic benefits dense regions enjoy compared to those characterized by sprawl. They are worth checking out. The first looks at the Detroit bankruptcy. Its entitled "A Tale of…

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Worth reading

Lots of good stuff being written about the themes we are focused on at Michigan Future. Here is a list of  recent articles I think are particularly worth reading: A Gap in College Graduates Leaves Some Cities Behind, from the…

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College Success Advisers

Readers know that I am concerned about the low graduation rates that characterized almost all of our universities and colleges. The recent Brookings report on demographic changes across the country from 2000-2008 provides data that should worry all of us.…

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The New White Flight?

Real interesting article at Yahoo.com about a new Brookings Institution study. Its title: White flight? Suburbs lose young whites to cities. That it's even possible that whites are moving into, rather than out of, central cities will come as a huge shock…

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