Don Grimes and I have written in each of our annual progress reports on the Michigan economy that Michigan's economic collapse the past decade could best be explained as a single industry recession, rather than a single state recession. That…
Quite frankly I was surprised at the data in my last blog about the big disparity in public sector employment in Michigan this decade compared to the nation. Nationally public sector employment up around six percent, in Michigan down six…
A common story about Michigan's economic woes is that we have a big and growing public sector that is discouraging/preventing private sector growth. Think again! In the new work by UM economist George Fulton and Don Grimes is a comparison…