Download or read book Investing for the Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investment Budgeting written by Warren C. Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan s Economic Future written by Charles Ballard and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible, engaging text examines the impact of the trends that have shaped Michigan’s economy, and offers innovative solutions to the current economic crisis. Charles Ballard’s illuminating book explores the structure of Michigan’s economy, including its roots in agriculture, the rise and fall of the automotive industry, and the long-term decline of manufacturing. Ballard proposes that investing in education to create a highly skilled workforce can help Michigan’s people to compete in the rapidly evolving global economy. Discussing the state’s transportation infrastructure, environment, public expenditures, and tax system, Ballard describes how changes in attitudes, policies, and political institutions will help to promote economic recovery and growth.
Download or read book Michigan s Economic Future written by Charles L. Ballard and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s and 1960s Michigan was one of the world's economic power-houses. Over the last several decades, however, manufacturing has claimed an ever-smaller share of the U.S. economy, and Michigan, with its heavy emphasis on manufacturing, has steadily lost ground. In this thought-provoking book, Charles L. Ballard provides a detailed analysis of Michigan's current economic situation, and points the way to a brighter future. Although manufacturing will continue to play an important role for years to come, the economic conditions of the mid twentieth century have changed, and the brightest prospects for the future are in the high-skill, high-technology sectors of the economy. Thus, education is the key to success in tomorrow's economy. Michigan's foremost challenge is to provide the highly educated, highly skilled workforce that the future economy will demand. This is a daunting challenge, since the educational attainment of Michigan's population lags behind the national average. Ballard demonstrates that a single-minded focus on cutting taxes and public services will not take Michigan where it needs to go. The level of taxation in Michigan is far lower than it once was, and Michigan's archaic tax system is increasingly unable to provide enough resources to make necessary investments for the future. Education policy and public finances take center stage in Michigan's Economic Future, but Ballard also explores other critical policy issues such as transportation, land use, environment, corrections, health care, and anti-poverty programs. Michigan's Economic Future is essential for anyone interested in economic policy for the Great Lakes State.
Download or read book Moving Michigan Forward written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Strategy for Michigan s Future written by Michigan. Governor (1983-1991 : Blanchard) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Chasing the Past Or Investing in Our Future written by Michigan State University. Land Policy Institute and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Investing in Michigan s Future written by Lawrence J. Schweinhart and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents results from research into the effects of early childhood programs on their participants, particularly low-income and at-risk children. The studies described offer evidence on the long-term effects of high quality early childhood programs. Such programs can have long-lasting positive effects on children and their families, whether measured by intellectual performance in childhood, school achievement in adolescence, reduced placements in special education, reduced retentions in grade, improved high school graduation rates, reduced arrest rates, or older age of mothers at the birth of their first child. These evaluations further suggest that the returns on investments in high-quality early childhood education are significantly larger than the returns on almost any other public investment, with a return of anywhere from four to seventeen dollars for every dollar spent on programs. Studies of Head Start and state preschool programs report modest short-term effects, including significant improvement in the literacy and social skills of children as well as in the behavior of their parents. The evidence described in this report suggests that existing publicly funded preschool programs would benefit from becoming more like high-quality model preschool programs that have been proven effective. Resources and responsibility are currently scattered across a diverse array of competing agencies, with insufficient attention given to the quality of programs. Turning this patchwork of governance practices and programs into an efficient, effective system is both an opportunity and a challenge for Michigan policy-makers. Providing high quality early childhood care and education to young children, particularly those living in at-risk conditions, is an investment that will pay substantial, tangible dividends down the road by raising skill levels across the state workforce while reducing unemployment and welfare dependency, criminal justice costs and teen pregnancy rates. Michigan is beginning to map out a comprehensive early childhood support system, but has yet to put significant resources behind this effort. The goal of Michigan's early childhood education policies in the immediate future should be a steady increase in the number of children participating in high-quality early childhood education programs. A strategy to achieve this goal requires action on five different fronts: (1) Michigan must reduce the patchwork of programs and providers, rather than making it more complicated; (2) Policy-makers must raise the bar in terms of the quality of care received by Michigan children by increasing standards and expectations for all early childhood education programs and providers; (3) State policy-makers should use funds more effectively, shifting funds to higher-quality center-based programs and away from low-quality and custodial programs; (4) Policy-makers should target resources toward the neediest children, including those living with toxic stress and those currently involved in low-quality early childhood care; and (5) Policy-makers should support efforts to develop and expand model programs for needy children in needy communities. Decisions about early childhood care and education made by state policy-makers today will have profound and lasting effects on the economic and social well-being of children, their families and the state itself for decades to come. (Contains 66 endnotes, 6 figures, and 5 tables.).
Download or read book Budget Message of the Governor written by Michigan. Governor and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Helping to Shape Michigan s Future written by Michigan State University. Land Policy Institute and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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