The recently released 2017 American Community Survey provides data on median earnings from work of those 25 and older who worked. The table at the end of this post presents that data for the nation, Michigan, and Minnesota--the Great Lakes…
Turns out that California since 2010 has contributed 20 percent of the country's GDP growth with 12 percent of the country's population. As we explored previously this growth occurred primarily after California passed a major tax increase in 2012. And was…
We have in our last few reports deconstructed per capita income into its components. Doing that has made clear the importance of wages and benefits paid by private sector employers to the future prosperity on the country. We measure that…
As we explored in a previous post, transfer payments are highest in America's small towns, not its big metros. The same is true of government employment earnings. And the reverse is true for private sector employment earnings. Each contrary to…
My last post looked at the top 10 states for private sector employment earnings (both wages and employer paid benefits) per capita. The component of per capita income that everyone wants and should be the goal of state and local…