ARTICLES
Four-year degrees are catalyst to economic rebound
We are constantly inundated with the storyline that we have a glut of four-year degree graduates who can’t find jobs and will be crushed by student loans they can’t pay off.
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Where do we go from here?
We started our work at Michigan Future with the question: “Where do we want to go from here?”
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Concentrate on per-capita income, not business climate
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 many pundits. Wouldn’t you rather have a good economy?
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Metro economy’s 10-year average dips precipitously
From 2001-2010, the seven-county Grand Rapids regional economy performed better than the Michigan economy.
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