The community college challenge
I support President Obama’s proposal to make community college tuition free for those students who stay on track academically. Expanding education opportunity and outcomes is
More wrong direction k-12 policy
Insightful Stephen Henderson Detroit Free Press editorial entitled: “Snyder hasn’t earned more leeway over troubled schools”. Henderson is writing specifically about the Governor’s decision to
Lower income and fewer jobs with the same unemployment rate
Michigan’s February unemployment rate of 5.9 percent is the lowest it has been in more than a dozen years. Since it was also 5.9 percent
Pittsburgh as a reinventor region
In our last post we reviewed the Centre for Cities report on what predicts economic success at the regional level in the United Kingdom. The report’s
Manufacturing and economic decline
In a City Lab article Richard Florida reviews research from the United Kingdom on which metropolitan areas are prospering, which aren’t and why. The research
Forbes: (Metro) Detroit is dying
Important article in Forbes entitled Detroit Is Dying Because GM Stuck Around, New York City Booms Because Nabisco Did Not. Highly recommended! The article is authored
