How to pay for our policy agenda
Many of our recommendations laid out in our new report, A path to good-paying careers for all Michiganders, involve increasing public investments. Which raises the
May 31, 2017
Many of our recommendations laid out in our new report, A path to good-paying careers for all Michiganders, involve increasing public investments. Which raises the
CNBC ranked Minnesota the best state to do business in. Pretty surprising. Good economy? Yes. Good place to do business? Conventional wisdom is no. We
The well-respected Tax Foundation recently released their 2015 State Business Tax Climate Index report. Michigan is rated the 13th best business climate in the country.
No matter who wins next week’s elections for Governor and the state legislature those elected will be taking over a state economy that is a
Nearly a year ago I did what turned out to be one of my most popular posts which looked at how states ranked highly by
Not good news for Michigan. The unemployment rate is going up again. Up to 9.0% in August from a post recession low of 8.4% in
I want to update a column I wrote for Dome in November 2011. Entitled “Model state for Michigan’s future?” I wrote then: The Mackinac Center
We have written previously about how irrelevant state business climate rankings are to whether or not a state’s residents are doing well economically. Here about
As we explored in our last post being in the top 10 in business cost rankings has little or nothing to do with Michigan families
As we have written frequently being highly ranked in business climate rankings seems increasingly to be the goal/measuring stick of economic policy makers and too
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