Why are more men not at work?
Read this and let it sink in for a minute: A man with only a high school diploma is twice as likely to be out of work as a man who has a four-year college degree. And, of the 9.3…
Redesigning workforce development for the new economy
Last week my colleague Kim Trent wrote about the rapidity at which automation is changing the job market and the skills that employers are looking for. Hundreds of thousands of Michigan workers have reason to be concerned about whether the…
New jobs require higher skill levels
If you haven’t been convinced already by the approximately one million posts MFI has written over the years about the importance of a college degree for individual job security and earnings, and for the importance of college degree holders to…