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Minnesota Is A Successful High Tax State

Minnesota is a successful high tax state

  • January 10, 2023
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 0 Comments

Minnesota is a high tax state. Has been for decades. Minnesota is the Great Lakes States best in economic well being and demographic outcomes. Has been for decades. Michigan is not a high tax state. Its taxes per capita far…

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Why Michigan Doesn’t Pivot To A High-prosperity Economic Strategy

Why Michigan doesn’t pivot to a high-prosperity economic strategy

  • September 8, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 1 Comment

The first post I wrote for this blog was 13 years ago. It was entitled the Need For a New Michigan and made the case that what made us prosperous in the past, won't in the future. That if we…

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Detailing The Failure Of Michigan’s Motor Vehicle Factory Strategy

Detailing the failure of Michigan’s motor vehicle factory strategy

  • July 21, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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As Rick Haglund chronicled for Crain's Detroit Business, since General Motors in 1992 chose Arlington Texas over Willow Run for a motor vehicle assembly plant, Michigan’s economic development priority has been to compete for auto assembly and auto parts plants.…

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Indiana’s Failed Low Tax Economic Strategy

Indiana’s failed low tax economic strategy

  • June 7, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

A decade ago in a column for Dome we made the case that Indiana's low tax economic strategy was a failure and would continue to fail going forward. We wrote: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy on Monday is hosting…

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Could The Detroit Three Be Mobility Industry Minnows?

Could the Detroit Three be mobility industry minnows?

  • April 28, 2022
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

The New York Times in an article entitled Jim Farley tries to reinvent Ford and catch up to Elon Musk and Tesla writes: Yet Wall Street still thinks that Tesla, which is worth more than $1 trillion, will dominate the…

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Everything Is Not Fine.

Everything is Not Fine.

  • September 14, 2021
  • Kristen McDonald Rivet
  • Public Investment, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments
At Michigan Future, we believe that there are structural issues in our economy that will take bold and transformative action to remedy. It is time for Michigan to step up with a large expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
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Education And Infrastructure Investments Drive Twin Cities’ Economy

Education and infrastructure investments drive Twin Cities’ economy

  • June 8, 2018
  • Rick Haglund
  • Blog, Public Investment
  • 0 Comments

Metro Minneapolis has built a diverse economy that is one of the wealthiest of any large metropolitan area in the country and has withstood deep national recessions. Median household income in the Twin Cities of $73,231 was the seventh highest…

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How Are Michigan’s Women Doing? Not Great. (Part 2)

How are Michigan’s women doing? Not great. (Part 2)

  • January 26, 2018
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

On Wednesday I wrote about how women in particular are doing in Michigan's--and the world's--changing economy. I started by sharing data on single women-led households with children, who are more likely than not to be living in poverty. Then I…

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How Are Michigan’s Women Doing? Not Great. (Part 1)

How are Michigan’s women doing? Not great. (Part 1)

  • January 24, 2018
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Feature, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

Following a weekend in which, for the second year in a row, women around the world marched for a variety of issues affecting women and communities they care about, I thought it would be appropriate to spend a minute here…

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A True Detroit “Comeback” Means Leaving No One Behind

A True Detroit “Comeback” Means Leaving No One Behind

  • March 1, 2017
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog
  • 2 Comments

A recent post making the urbanist rounds asks, “Is Detroit Really Making a Comeback?” The authors’ research, which was just published in the journal Cities, looks at employment, income, housing values, and other data to explore whether the resurgence evidenced…

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