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00:19:21

State Revenue Estimates Provide Smooth Sailing for...

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2024/05/20

State budget officials met on May 17, 2024, to finalize state revenue estimates that will be used as guideposts for ongoing FY2025 budget deliberations. The Research Council's Bob Schneider and Craig Thiel provide insights into what the new estimates mean as lawmakers wrap up the budget as well as the budget outlook for Fiscal Year 2026.Scheider said the conference experts delivered a positive outlook, stating that the forecast for the national and state economy was generally good: real GDP, the

00:21:53

Historic Levels of Road Funding Undercut by Spiking...

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2024/05/10

Lauren Gibbons of Bridge Michigan chats with Eric Paul Dennis, research analyst specializing in infrastructure policy. While Michigan is working to ‘fix the damn roads,’ with historic levels of state and federal road funding, this effort has been undermined by unprecedented inflation in the cost of construction. And road construction inflation is not uniform: using 2015 as a baseline year, cost increases range from 34 percent in the Upper Peninsula to 63 percent in the Detroit Metro region.

00:20:54

Detroit’s Extra Appropriation for City Pensioners is...

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2024/05/02

WWJ-Detroit anchor and reporter Ryan Wrecker chats with Citizens Research Council President Eric Lupher about Detroit’s four-year financial plan to send $10 million in supplementary payments to city pensioners.Detroit cut benefits to pensioners as part of its bankruptcy settlement 10 years ago. Pension benefits, already modest pre-bankruptcy, have become meager in recent years due to inflation, and that has made life harder for pensioners. Now that the city is a decade removed from bankruptcy and

00:20:50

Enrollments Are Down, Federal Pandemic Cash is...

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2024/04/25

There are many tough decisions on the horizon for Michigan school districts.Schools are facing massive sums of federal pandemic relief funds ending at the same time that many they are facing declining enrollment, partially also due to the pandemic. Approximately 50% of K-12 budgets are allocated on staff salaries, with another 20% to 30% allocated for benefits. Added together, salaries and benefits – people -- account for about $4 out of every $5 dollars in school budgets, spread across a variety

00:27:47

Dashboard Jesus Busts Out All the Moves on State Roads

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2024/04/19

Bridge Michigan data reporter Mike Wilkinson talks with Research Council infrastructure analyst Eric Paul Dennis, who recently published a report showing that Michigan's road pavement quality ranks 40th nationally and 10th out of 11 among peer states.While Michigan's roads still lag those of other states, they are improving, thanks to more funding in the system. However, challenges remain, as future funding to maintain the new construction, critical to upkeep, will also be needed to make

00:19:18

District Detroit Development Changes Now Prioritize...

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2024/04/02

Annalise Frank of Axios Detroit chats with Citizens Research Council President Eric Lupher about the recent announcement by District Detroit developers that construction on their 17-story office building would be delayed. The codevelopers, New York-based The Related Cos. and the Ilitch organization's Olympia Development of Michigan, are instead changing the order of their 10 proposed District Detroit projects, moving up one of the planned new hotels as well as one of the residential buildings

00:22:01

State Should Consider Nurse Practitioner Scope...

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2024/03/28

Gongwer News Service reporter Lily Guiney sat down with Research Council health analyst Karley Abramson to discuss Michigan’s shortage of primary care providers (PCP) and how expanding the scope of practice for nurse practitioners would help address the shortage, which is projected to get worse in the coming years.On March 20, medical professionals from around the state gathered in a Senate committee room to testify on both sides of legislation that would expand the scope of Nurse Practitioner

00:23:16

Joni was right: paving paradise is dumb🚖 It’s past...

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2024/03/20

Michigan can and should encourage healthier, more livable communities, sustainable development, desirable affordable housing, and public transit by getting rid of parking mandates.Governor Whitmer’s Growing Michigan Together Council established a need to 'create thriving, resilient communities' as part of a strategy to grow Michigan’s population and improve our economic prospects. Municipal parking mandates stand directly in the way of this goal. 👎

00:20:50

Burying power lines is expensive, however MI is...

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2024/03/14

Detroit Free Press reporter Arpan Lobo guest hosts the Facts Matter podcast, produced by the Citizens Research Council. Arpan, who recently wrote about Consumers Energy getting the OK to bury power lines in 6 Michigan counties, interviews Citizens Research Council analyst Eric Dennis, who issued a report this time last year about the benefits of undergrounding electrical lines but, that without a coherent state policy to enable it, it will not happen. It’s rarely considered due to cost

00:26:23

Urban/Rural School Closures Likely in Michigan Amid...

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2024/01/31

Over the 2020 to 2050 period, Michigan’s school-age population is expected to fall from 1.58 million to 1.48 million children. This will fuel a continuation of a two-decades-long decline in the number of students enrolled in public schools.As individual schools confront further enrollment declines and the exhaustion of one-time federal COVID relief aid at the end of 2024, many will face the prospect of whether to close buildings with lower enrollments to ensure their long-term fiscal

00:21:43

The state gave tens of millions in debt relief to...

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2024/01/26

Michigan lawmakers recently approved $114 million from the state School Aid Fund to pay off the legacy debts of several local school systems that previously faced serious financial distress. Some districts received the relief, others did not. This represents a moral hazard, signaling to some districts that they will not be held responsible for solving any future financial problems. Taxpayers should demand a cohesive, transparent strategy for determining who receives debt relief. Because the current

00:32:37

Will Michigan’s financial disclosure law impact...

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2023/12/08

Michigan is likely to continue to be rated as one of the worst states for government ethics, transparency, and accountability. Proposal 1, a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2022, required the ethics reform (financial disclosure) legislation to be enacted by December 31. While the new law meets the bare minimum standards set by Proposal 1, Michigan is likely to continue to be rated as one of the worst states for government ethics, transparency, and accountability. Because of several

00:16:36

Four Elements of Better Housing Policy

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2023/11/23

Maureen McNulty-Saxton talks to Citizens Research Council Research Associate for Local Affairs Chelsea Dowler https://crcmich.org/four-elements-of-better-housing-policy In a Nutshell - Many housing affordability and equity issues are rooted in car reliance, disinvestment in the urban core, and reliance on underfunded and inefficient federal housing programs. - A housing production program must tackle root causes to adequately address housing affordability and equity over the long term. - The

00:12:34

Lack of data raises questions about quality and cost...

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2023/11/17

Guest Host Estelle Slootmaker, who recently reported on this issue for SecondWave Media Michigan, interviews Research Council Analyst Karley Abramson. In a nutshell: - Health care to prisoners is a costly endeavor, yet the Michigan Department of Corrections does not adequately assess whether it meets its legal obligations to prisoners in the most cost-effective way. - Three important questions are currently unknowable: Are Michigan prisoners being taken care of up to the constitutional standards

00:43:26

Detroit’s Split-Rate Tax Proposal—Concerns with...

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2023/11/10

While property tax relief for residents and businesses is needed, the split-rate tax proposal may fail to achieve its objective of added economic vibrancy. In its function as a penalty to land speculation, it may have the unintended effect that it worsens the city’s issue with abandoned and vacant land. - Currently, under consideration by the state Legislature is a bill that would permit Detroit to levy its version of a land value tax. - The so-called split-rate tax proposal would split the levy

00:25:52

Michigan state and local governments

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2023/10/20

The Governor’s Office of Foundation Liaison commissioned Citizens Research Council of Michigan and Altarum* to conduct a comprehensive data analysis of Michigan’s population, economic and environmental conditions to help answer a fundamental question: In what direction is Michigan heading? Citizens Research Council was thrilled to work with Bridge Michigan as guest hosts for this special series of podcasts covering this five-part research series, entitled “Michigan’s Path to a Prosperous Future:

00:17:34

The state of health

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2023/10/20

00:19:11

Michigan’s economy, workforce & talent

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2023/10/20

00:24:07

Infrastructure, environment and climate change

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2023/10/20

00:17:02

Stagnating Population

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2023/10/20

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