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Are Upper Middle Class Parents Destroying The American Dream For Everyone Else’s Kids?

Are upper middle class parents destroying the American Dream for everyone else’s kids?

  • June 8, 2020
  • Kim Trent
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 1 Comment

This post was first published in July 2017. As America confronts the reality of structural racism, it is clear we need to put on the table topics that have been off the table for far too long. One of those…

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Shared Prosperity Books To Read

Shared prosperity books to read

  • October 27, 2017
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

In my last post I recommended three books and a video on education and placemaking. In this post we look at three books worth reading on shared prosperity. Education, placemaking and shared prosperity being the three state policy levers we…

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Collateral Consequences: Making Prisoner Reentry Harder And Recidivism More Likely

Collateral Consequences: Making prisoner reentry harder and recidivism more likely

  • October 4, 2017
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

Last week I summarized the section of our recently released paper, A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: Sharing prosperity with those not participating in the high-wage knowledge-based economy, that focuses on necessary reforms to the criminal justice system. I…

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Why Criminal Justice Reform Is A Part Of Our Path To Prosperity

Why criminal justice reform is a part of our path to prosperity

  • September 29, 2017
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

If you’ve been following this blog, you know we recently released the second in-depth topic paper outlining the proposed policy changes that we believe can help put Michigan back on a path to prosperity. To us, a prosperous state is…

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Creative Accounting  And Michigan’s Weak Safety Net

Creative accounting and Michigan’s weak safety net

  • September 28, 2016
  • Patrick Cooney
  • Blog
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This year, as the welfare reforms instituted under President Clinton turned 20, NPR's Marketplace started a podcast called the Uncertain Hour, which takes a deep look at the consequences of those reforms. And in the fourth episode, Michigan takes a…

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Explaining persistent low education attainment

  • June 11, 2015
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Insightful blog by Marc Tucker CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy. Tucker's topic is why America for decades has failed to reverse its standing as an international laggard in student achievement. Its not that that reality…

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