It used to be that parents who wanted job security urged kids to get a degree with immediately practical applications—like Eboo Patel’s mother, who wanted
President Lou Glazer sat down with Cynthia Canty of Michigan Radio’s Stateside to discuss why globalization and technology are more powerful in creating a new Michigan than politics or policy. Listen to the full story here.
Michigan Future’s work started with the question “where do we want to go from here?” Our answer: a high-prosperity Michigan – a place with a
Micheline Maynard wrote an insightful article for Atlantic Cities entitled The Midwest’s Big Economic Miscalculation. She writes particularly about Michigan’s continuing belief that the auto industry
Two terrific articles describe the present and future of factory work in America. The first from the New York Times on Apple’s production system. The
After the 2010 election I wrote two posts on how disconnected our politics are from the new economic realities of a flattening world. (You can
Received a thoughtful comment from former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Watkins to my post that Michigan’s lost decade can be explained by the
Insightful article from Chrystia Freeland in the Atlantic entitled the Rise of the New Global Elite. As Freeland writes a major reason for the rise
As I wrote in my previous posts about the upcoming elections, at the core of our work is the belief that globalization and technology are
In my last post I laid out the case for globalization and technology being the prime drivers of economic change rather than politics or policy.
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