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Reforming Capitalism Through Employer Mandates

Reforming capitalism through employer mandates

  • May 29, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
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In our state policy agenda we advocate for augmenting wages and benefits through some combination of employer mandates and/or a strengthened safety net. And note that the employer mandate recommendations is the area where we have the most disagreement amongst…

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Increasing Wages And Supports For Michigan Workers

Increasing wages and supports for Michigan workers

  • September 27, 2017
  • Patrick Cooney
  • Blog, Public Investment, Shared Prosperity
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Our latest report provides a set of ideas for how we improve living standards for Michiganders not participating in the high-wage knowledge economy. Last week I wrote about our ideas for providing far more support to jobless individuals, to help…

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Low Unemployment Doesn’t Mean A Prosperous Michigan

Low unemployment doesn’t mean a prosperous Michigan

  • August 11, 2017
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
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  The most important recommendation in our new state policy agenda is that we change the mission of state economic policy to a rising household income for all. A Michigan with a broad middle class where wages and benefits allows…

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Michiganders Need A New Economic Agenda

Michiganders need a new economic agenda

  • May 5, 2017
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 2 Comments

Our new report, A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders, recommends big changes in state economic policy. The need for such an agenda is clear. In the seventh year of a national economic expansion––and an even stronger rebound from…

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21st Century jobs policy

  • March 19, 2014
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog
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Jobs is the area where our vision of future success and the policies we are pursuing to realize that vision are most stuck in the past. Both across the country, and even more so here in Michigan. MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson…

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