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Forum Seeks Path to Better Future for Michigan

The Detroit Free Press has a report on yesterday's "Where Do We Go From Here?" conference. Recommendations included developing a blue-ribbon advisory commission to tackle specific economic problems, a comprehensive review of tax and spending policies, a major effort in civic education so the state's citizens can weigh the advantages and disadvantages of public policy and evaluate options and make educated decisions, lifelong learning programs to help Michigan's workers cope with a changing marketplace and reform of the Single Business Tax.

In a related article, Free Press columnist Tom Walsh lays out a compelling case challenging classic assumptions about Michigan including feelings that our wages (nearly average) and tax rates (29th among the 50 states) are too high and that our schools are not producing quality students.

Read Ways to turn around state economy in the Freep
Also see TOM WALSH: Think tax, wage cuts can fix state woes? Think again in the Freep
Add your comment to "How to fix Michigan's economy?" at the Freep
Read Conference speakers: Michigan must learn to think differently from Crain's Detroit Business
Read papers presented at the conference from The Center for Michigan

Posted/updated Mar 15, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)