For decades we have been told by much of the organized business community and conservative policy makers and pundits that Michigan needs to move in the direction of the low tax/small government/right to work South to be economically successful. Which,…
What is most disturbing about the "we should be like the South" mantra is that, by and large, these are the lowest education attainment states in the country. Most of those who advocate becoming like the South also say that…
Quite predictably the release of the 2010 Census was accompanied by a chorus of Michigan needs to be like the South admonitions. It happens with nearly every new release of economic and demographic statistics or rankings. But once again the…