A Closer Look at the Dashboard

January 19th, 2012 · No Comments

A baby born today will be an adult before there are as many people working as there were in 2000.

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Searching for Economic Prosperity

March 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Searching for Economic Prosperity by Jean B. Eggemeyer March 16, 2010 In recent years policymakers in Michigan and in Washington, D.C. have been looking for ways to foster the growth and development of high-tech, new economy businesses in order to provide stable economic growth, reduce unemployment and improve quality of life. In a new book [...]

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Hard Times for Public Education

February 28th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Hard Times for Public Education by Stephen A. Jones March 1, 2010 Recently, the students in one of my classes read Studs Terkel’s book Hard Times — an oral history of the Great Depression, featuring the recollections of people who lived through it. The thing my students found most remarkable about the book was how [...]

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Desperate for Diversification

January 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Desperate for Diversification A brief history of Michigan’s economic development strategies by Rick Haglund January 16, 2010 Michigan was in big trouble as the decade of the 1980s dawned. Detroit’s automakers, collectively known then as the muscular Big Three, were beginning to see their dominance challenged by imports from upstart Japanese automakers. They were unprepared, [...]

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Entering a Depression

November 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Entering a Depression by Neil Munro December 1, 2009 Let’s face it. We’re no longer in an economic recession. The economy here in Michigan is entering a depression. What we’re embarking on is more comparable to our plight in the 1930s than, for example, to the very deep but short downturn of the early 1980s. [...]

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